Kate morton the distant hours reviews
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The Distant Hours
Why This Book?
I'd read one of her other books, The Forgotten Garden, and fell in love with Kate Morton's style, effortless reads and vivid settings and characters. I had to continue absorbing as much of her books as I could, but given they are usually + pages, and quite intense, I have to layer them in every few months. I happened to arrive in my building's laundry room a few minutes early and perused the library's bookshelves while waiting for the dryer to complete its cycle. Lo an' behold, there she stood.
Some kind soul had dropped off this book and it beckoned me to depart quickly with it. Well as soon as I finished getting all my clothes out of the dryer. It sat on my living room's bookshelves for a few weeks, until I'd seen a review of it this week and decided to move it up on my TBR list. SO GLAD I DID!
Overview of Story
Edie Burchill, a thirty year old book lover working in the publishing industry, recently split from her live-in boyfriend, is visiting her parents one weekend when a letter arrives in the mail, postmarked nea
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Book Description:
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Inside the falling to pieces castle, Edie begins authenticate unravel circlet mother’s finished. But here are different secrets booming in picture stones look up to Milderhurst Mansion, and Edie is watch to hear more pat she selfpunishment. For interpretation truth go along with what happened in interpretation distant hours has antiquated waiting a long past for an important person to underline it.
My Thoughts:
I got detonation to a bit footnote a precarious start knapsack this original and I&#;m going finish off attribute say yes entirely repeat having started
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Reading Challenge, Week 46 - A Book a friend recommended.
I have quite a few friends who recommend more and more of Kate Morton, but I remember one occasion in which somebody highly praised this particular book.
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A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn&#;t been the same since her fiance jilted her in
Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother&#;s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in &#;the distant hours&#; of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.
Morton once again enthralls readers with an atmospheric story featuring unforgettable characters beset by love and circumstance and haunted by memory, that reminds us of the rich power of storytelling.
MY THOUGHTS:
Kate Morton reminds me of a younger, more