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The house at Riverton a novel

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at...

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Main Author: Morton, Kate, 1976-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2008.
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Women domestics > Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age > Fiction.
Upper class families > Fiction.
Poets > Crimes against > Fiction.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 1918-1945 > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Summary: Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories.--From publisher description.
Item Description: "Originally published in Australia in 2006 as The Shifting Fog by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: vi, 473 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781416550518
1416550518
9781416550532 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Kate Morton was born in South Australia in 1976. She earned a degree in speech and drama from Trinity College London, an English literature degree from the University of Queensland, and a master's degree focusing on tragedy in Victorian literature from the University of Queensland. She also completed a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program researching contemporary novels that marry elements of gothic and mystery fiction.

She won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2007 for her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, also known as The House at Riverton. Her other books include The Distant Hours, and The Forgotten Garden, which won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2009. Her books The Secret Keeper and The Lake House were New York Times bestsellers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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