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Tout commence par une lettre égarée pendant près d''un demi-siècle et qui ne parviendra que bien des années plus tard à sa destinataire... Lorsqu''elle reçoit un courrier en provenance du Kent qui au

Summer 1924: on the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time house-maid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poets suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Graces mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The Shifting Fog is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

Within its four walls lay a secret that would last a lifetimeSummer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet''s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace''s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, The House at Riverton will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan''s Atonement, L.P. Hartley''s The Go-Between, and lovers of the film Gosford Park.

Es beginnt mit einem verloren geglaubten Brief. Ein halbes Jahrhundert hat er darauf gewartet, von Meredith Burchill gelesen zu werden. Als die sonst so beherrschte Frau über den Zeilen in Tränen ausbricht, macht sich ihre Tochter Edie auf die Suche nach dem Absender. Die Spur führt nach Milderhurst Castle, wo seit Jahrzehnten die exzentrischen Blythe-Schwestern leben. Als Edie das verfallene Schloss betritt, beginnt sie zu ahnen, dass hinter den alten Mauern der Schlüssel zur rätselhaften Vergangenheit ihrer Mutter liegt.

Eine unheilvolle Luge, eine verbotene Sehnsucht, ein geheimes Verbrechen England, Green Acres Farm 1959: Wahrend einer Familienfeier am Flussufer beobachtet die junge Laurel, wie ein Fremder das Grundstuck betritt und ihre Mutter aufsucht. Kurz darauf ist der idyllische Frieden des Ortes jah zerstort, und Laurel ahnt, dass etwas Schreckliches passiert sein muss. Erst funfzig Jahre spater wird Laurel beim Anblick eines alten Fotos klar, dass sie damals Zeugin eines Verbrechens wurde. Doch was genau geschah an jenem lang zuruckliegenden Sommertag? Als Laurel nach langer Zeit in ihr Elternhaus zuruckkehrt, um im Kreis der Familie den neunzigsten Geburtstag ihrer Mutter Dorothy zu feiern, holen sie schon bald verdrangte Erinnerungen ein. Weder hat sie je erfahren, wer der geheimnisvolle Fremde war, der 1959 Unheil uber ihre Familie brachte, noch wei sie, was genau damals geschah. Erst als Laurel ein Foto aus dem Jahre 1942 entdeckt, das ihre Mutter in London mit einer Frau namens Vivien zeigt, versucht sie, Dorothys geheimnisvoller Vergangenheit nachzugehen. Warum zerbrach die zarte Freundschaft der beiden Frauen? Und wer ist Jimmy, den Dorothy wohl sehr liebte und doch vor der Familie verbarg? Auf der Suche nach Antworten muss Laurel erfahren, dass sie sich immer in ihrer Mutter getauscht hat

Kurz vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs kommt Grace Bradley als Dienstbotin nach Riverton Manor. Selbst noch nicht erwachsen, bewundert sie die Hartford-Madchen Hannah und Emmeline, die mit ihrer unbeschwerten Frohlichkeit fur Leben auf dem Anwesen sorgen. Doch die Begegnung mit dem jungen Dichter Lord Robert Hunter wird Hannah und Emmeline fur immer verandern. Als einzige Vertraute versucht Grace die beiden Schwestern vor Unheil zu bewahren - vergeblich ... Mehr als 75 Jahre bewahrt Grace das Geheimnis, bis sie endlich die Wahrheit uber jene Tage preisgibt.

1961: On a sweltering summers day, Laurel witnesses a shocking crime. 2011: Now a much loved actress, Laurel finds herself haunted by the memories and mystery of what she saw that day. Returning home, she begins to piece together a secret history - a tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds, whose lives are brought together and fatefully entwined by wartime London.

The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.A missing child...June 1933, and the Edevane family''s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she''s also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn''t. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.An abandoned house...Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather''s cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.An unsolved mystery...Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family''s past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape...

A lost child On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace.A terrible secret On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell OConnor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance On Nells death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.A captivating and atmospheric story of secrets, family and memory from the international bestselling author Kate Morton.

Kate Morton retrata los últimos esplendores de la aristocracia inglesa, un mundo de convenciones y secretos atravesado por vehementes pasiones y terribles desengaños. Se trata de su primera novela, que ha sido vendida a quince paises. Solamente en el Reino Unido ha vendido mas de 600.000 ejemplares y ha recibido excelentes criticas en los medios mas importantes del pais.Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, una preciosa mansion a orillas de un lago, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Las unicas testigos de ese dramatico hecho, las hermanas Hannah y Emmelinen Hartford, no se volveran a hablar nunca mas.Invierto de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de 98 años que otrora fuera doncella en Riverton Manor, recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que esta rodando una pelicula sobre el suicidio del poeta. Esa visita convoca los fantasmas del pasado, recuerdos que durante decadas Grace habia relegado a lo mas profundo de su mente, incapaz de enfrentarse a ellos.

It started with a letter. A letter that had been lost a long time, waiting out half a century in a forgotten postal bag in the dim attic of a nondescript house in Bermondsey…

Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it...

A long-held family mystery will finally unravel in The Forgotten Garden, the beloved bestseller from the author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.

È il 1913 e sulla costa dell'Inghilterra una nave e pronta a salpare per l'Australia: a bordo, tra i passeggeri in cerca di fortuna e i rudi marinai intenti alle manovre, una bambina di quattro anni, Neil, stringe il prezioso libro di favole che le ha regalato la misteriosa Autrice, Eliza Makepeace. Che dovrebbe prendersi cura di lei, ma l'abbandona sul ponte. Distratta dalle attenzioni di un bimbo piu grande che la invita a giocare, Neil non si accorge che il rombo dei motori si fa piu incalzante, e la nave lascia il molo diretta verso il mare aperto. Dopo una traversata che sembra infinita, quando il transatlantico arriva a destinazione, la piccola si ritrova sperduta nel porto di Maryborough: e smarrita, non ricorda il suo nome e tutto cio che le e rimasto e una valigina bianca che contiene qualche vestito e quel bellissimo libro di fiabe. Per Hugh, il capitano del porto, quella delicata creatura pare piovuta dal cielo, a consolare lui e la moglie della loro sterilita. Da quel momento sara sua figlia. Solo la sera del suo ventunesimo compleanno Neil apprende dal padre il segreto delle sue origini e la sua vita cambia per sempre.

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