The House at Riverton

The House at Riverton
By: Kate Morton
Four out of Five stars

my thoughts:
This book was recommended by a few friends and a book club. With all that backing how can you not read a book, am I right?!? Great, Great, Great read! I want you to read this just so you can understand how awesome it is! There are some twists and turns.

The House at Riverton tells the story of a Manor House in Essex during WW1 at the beginning of the 1920s. A film is being made of a tragic even that occurred at the house, the suicide of a young poet. Grace is sought out to tell her side of the story. At 99 years old she begins to tell her story and her connection to the Hartford sisters. As the story unfolds though, it's not as clean cut secrets have been made and kept for over 100 years.

the run down:
On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999

Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.

Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.