Kate Morton

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 they--and Grace--know 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--From publisher description.

A woman on a quest to find out the truth about her family, a mysterious Victorian authoress, a book of dark fairytales and a long-hidden secret-The Forgotten Garden is another addictive and compulsively readable romance/mystery from Kate Morton, author of the international bestseller The Shifting Fog.A lost child.On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her-but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace.A terrible secret.On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance.On Nell's death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold-secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.A captivating and atmospheric story of secrets, family and memory from the international bestselling author Kate Morton.

Une enfant abandonnée sur un navire en partance pour l'Australie... La nuit de son vingt-et-unième anniversaire, une boulversante révélation change la vie de Nell à jamais. Des années plus tard, elle part en Angleterre, à la recherche de ses origines...

"A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"-- Summer, 1862. A group of young artists led by Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. By the end of their stay, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Radcliffe's life is in ruins. Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river. -- adapted from back cover

1924. A young poet takes his life. The witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline, will never speak to each other again. 1999. Grace Bradley, 98, one time maid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a director making a film about the poet's suicide.

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.

"A la muerte de Nell, su nieta Casandra recibe una inesperada herencia: una cabaña y su olvidado jardín en las tierras de Cornualles, que es conocido por la gente por los secretos que esconde. Aquí es donde Casandra descubrirá finalmente la verdad sobre la familia y resolverá el misterio, que se remonta un siglo, de una niña desaparecida."--Page 4 of cover. A story of outer and inner journeys as "Nell," abandoned as a child, leaves her adoptive parents in Australia and travels to England to trace her story, to find her real identity--a quest that ultimately leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family.

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.