The house at Riverton
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kate Morton.
Edition: 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9781416550532
Subjects: Women domestics -- Fiction; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Upper class families -- Fiction; Poets -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Shifting fog
Description: 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 society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.
Notes: "Originally published in Australia in 2006 as The Shifting Fog by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.