The shifting fog
By: Kate Morton
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781741148008; 9781741751772; 9781760111663; 9781742379708
Subjects: Suicide; Fiction; Romans, nouvelles
Description: Summer 1924: On the eve of a Society party, by the lake of a English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, once a housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories long put out of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
Table of contents: title: Summer 1924: On the eve of a Society party, by the lake of a English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah & Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, once a housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories long put out of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.