The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330477587 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330477587 Global Overview for this book
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Nu-Knees
of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 5/26/2013
This book is in a Controlled Release!
Nu-Knees of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 5/26/2013 This book is in a Controlled Release!
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Journal Entry 1 by Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, May 26, 2013
Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, May 26, 2013
This is one of three books I bought in the Blue Cross charity shop in Witney, Oxon during a lovely holiday in and around the beautiful Cotswolds, choosing it because I've previously enjoyed both The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden by this author, one more than the other!
Amazon Editorial Review: "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 fiancé 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 . . ."
Amazon Editorial Review: "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 fiancé 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 . . ."
Journal Entry 2 by Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 6, 2013
Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 6, 2013
I loved this tale of family and love and loss and secrets and death and obsession and books and writers and writing and war and discord and madness and dependence and ....
Warning from a compulsive skipper of introductions: Don't miss out the extract from The True History of the Mud Man at the beginning! Even though it's in a different font and doesn't look too promising, it's essential - and I went back and read it again at the end.
If anything, I think I enjoyed this one more than her previous two novels - and have now added her fourth, The Secret Keeper, to my wish list.*
Highly recommended!
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* And in November 2013 I'm reading it :-)
Warning from a compulsive skipper of introductions: Don't miss out the extract from The True History of the Mud Man at the beginning! Even though it's in a different font and doesn't look too promising, it's essential - and I went back and read it again at the end.
If anything, I think I enjoyed this one more than her previous two novels - and have now added her fourth, The Secret Keeper, to my wish list.*
Highly recommended!
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* And in November 2013 I'm reading it :-)
Journal Entry 3 by Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 20, 2013
Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 20, 2013
Released 10 yrs ago (6/20/2013 UTC) at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom
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