The story of what really happened at the infamous midsummer's night party was tragic enough, and not a little unsettling, but something about it didn't feel right. It took forever to slog through the trivial details and get to the real action in this book.
I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of a country house, its inhabitants above and below stairs, with a family secret remembered only by an elderly lady who had been a maid there in her youth. It did remind me a little of the TV series Downton Abbey , but to be fair it was written earlier than the program...
I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of a country house, its inhabitants above and below stairs, with a family secret remembered only by an elderly lady who had been a maid there in her youth. It did remind me a little of the TV series Downton Abbey , but to be fair it was written earlier than the program...
3 1/2 starsThis is not too bad if you're looking for a fairly in-depth romance/mystery combination. It goes into quite a lot of detail about the moneyed classes and their household servants in England in the early 20th century. So many families were torn apart and so many lives painfully altered by ...
Kate Morton specializes in memories... in secrets... in showing us the lives of people in days-gone-by. In The House at Riverton, she tells the story and the secrets of an English manor and the Hartford family in the early 1900s and until after WWI.At 98, Grace is living in a nursing home. But when ...
During a lavish party on the grounds of Riverton Manor, the famous poet Robbie Hunter commits suicide in 1924. The only witnesses to the event, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, never spoke to each other again, and both women died within a year of the poet. Only one other person, Hannah's maid G...
Having enjoyed The Forgotten Garden as much as I did, I was eagerly anticipating delving into Kate Morton's detailed image of the English gentry during the turn of the century, otherwise known as The House at Riverton. Unfortunately, the fact that The House at Riverton was her first novel is very ap...
Not a patch on The Forgotten Garden, by the same author, which I really enjoyed. Boring and overly long, I didn't care about any of the characters and couldn't be bothered to wade through the second half.
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