The distant hours
By: Kate Morton
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781509813278
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Family secrets; World War, 1939-1945; Evacuation of civilians
Description: A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn?t been the same since her fiancé jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother?s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ?the distant hours? of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.
Notes: Originally published 2010 by Allen & Unwin in Australia.