The distant hours
By: Kate Morton
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781742371832
Subjects: Fiction; Mothers and daughters; Evacuation of civilians; World War, 1939-1945; Family secrets
Description: 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 on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her Mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Edie's mother had been evacuated to the castle as a 13 year old.