The House at Riverton / The Shifting Fog
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In the summer of 1924, at the grand Riverton Manor, a young poet takes his life on the eve of a society party, an event witnessed only by sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford. They would never speak to each other again. Decades later, in the winter of 1999, ninety-eight-year-old former housemaid Grace Bradley is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. This encounter awakens ghosts and long-buried memories. A shocking secret, forgotten by history but never by Grace, threatens to emerge.
Grace's life was tied to the Hartford family, especially the two daughters, before World War I. She saw the aristocratic way of life vanish forever, from the last days of Edwardian privilege shattered by war to the vibrant twenties. Now, as her memories resurface, the truth of that summer, known only to her and the sisters, begins to surface. What is the secret Grace has kept for decades, and what really happened that fateful night?
Publication date
March 3, 2009
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4.3/5
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473
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English
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Atria Books
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