Una ni?a desaparecida en el siglo XX…En v?speras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, una ni?a es abandonada en un barco con destino a Australia. Una misteriosa mujer llamada la Autora ha prometido cuidar de ella, pero la Autora desaparece sin dejar rastro…Un terrible secreto sale a la luz…En la noche de su veinti?n cumplea?os, Nell O’Connor descubre que es adoptada, lo que cambiar? su vida para siempre. D?cadas m?s tarde, se embarca en la b?squeda de la verdad de sus antepasados que la lleva a la ventosa costa de Cornualles.Una misteriosa herencia que llega en el siglo XXI…A la muerte de Nell, su nieta Casandra recibe una inesperada herencia: una caba?a y su olvidado jard?n en las tierras de Cornualles que es conocido por la gente por los secretos que estos esconden. Aqu? es donde Casandra descubrir? finalmente la verdad sobre la familia y resolver? el misterio, que se remonta un siglo, de una ni?a desaparecida.
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst 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: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond. In the grand and glorious Millderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the ...
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee)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 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".
