Author

Publication

2007 - Pan, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

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and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC823.92
  • LCCPR9619.4.M74 H68 2007

Description

Summer 1924. 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 at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost 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. -- back cover.

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