The House at Riverton

Resumen del libro

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline.

In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself.

The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only theyand Graceknow the truth.

In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever.

The novel is full of secretssome revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier.

It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history.

Kate Morton's first novel, originally published to critical acclaim in Australia, and quickly becoming a 1 bestseller in England, The House at Riverton is a vivid, page-turning novel of suspense and passion, with charactersand an endingreaders won't soon forget.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Kate Mortonx{0026}lt;/B creció en las montañas del noreste de Australia, en Queensland, y en la actualidad reparte su tiempo entre Londres y su granja australiana. Es licenciada en arte dramático y literatura inglesa y albergó el sueño de unirse a la Royal Shakespeare Company hasta que se dio cuenta de que, en realidad, más que actuar, lo que la entusiasmaba era el lenguaje. Aún así, Kate sigue sintiendo una punzada de nostalgia cada vez que va al teatro y las luces comienzan a atenuarse.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Ha vendido más de 11.000.000 de ejemplares y ha sido traducida a 34 idiomas y publicada en 42 países. x{0026}lt;I La casa de Rivertonx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El jardín olvidadox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Las horas distantesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cumpleaños secretox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El último adiósx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La hija del relojerox{0026}lt;/I se han convertido en número uno de ventas en todo el mundo.x{0026}lt;/P