The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Grace Bradley was just a girl when she began working as a servant at Riverton House. For years, her life was inextricably tied up with the glamorous and eccentric Hartford family's daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. Then, at a glittering society party in the s...
Actual rating 3.5This was my first audio novel, so I wasn't quite sure how I'd like it. It was ok after I got used to it. I could picture the settings and the plot unfolding, and I got a good sense of the characters. Most of the twists were quite well telegraphed but it was still an enjoyable journe...
This was lovely and elegant and I think Kate Morton has a new fan over here. The pacing was slow and on some level we knew at least most of how the book was going to end--we're told up-front that there was a death and even who it is--but this was a book about getting to that point, and in that it ...
This was lovely and elegant and I think Kate Morton has a new fan over here.The pacing was slow and on some level we knew at least most of how the book was going to end--we're told up-front that there was a death and even who it is--but this was a book about getting to that point, and in that it was...
This was a GREAT read. I really liked the way it was told, always from Grace's point of view. Starting with her in 1999 at the age of 99 and then going back to her days as a house maid and then lady's maid. I got a bit annoyed with the confusion between Grace and Alfred and the fact that she chose H...
This was a GREAT read. I really liked the way it was told, always from Grace's point of view. Starting with her in 1999 at the age of 99 and then going back to her days as a house maid and then lady's maid. I got a bit annoyed with the confusion between Grace and Alfred and the fact that she chose H...
What's it about? 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 so...
Here's a novel that serves as a bridge between present and past, revealing startling secrets, complicated and troubled lives among the privileged classes and those persons from the lower rungs of British society who spent their lives in service to them in their country estates or stately city homes ...
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