Cover retrieved from Goodreads
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton
Macmillan Pan Books: 2006, 599 pages
Reviewed by Sheryl Walters
This novel goes back and forth from present time to the past
of one character, Grace. In present day, she is at the end of her life
and begins to reminisce about an old mystery that she was involved with during
her time as a servant on a large estate. The story of that time is being
made into a movie and the makers consult her on some details. This makes
her return to that time and the reader slowly unravels the mysterious
events. I enjoyed this debut novel by Kate Morton, and I read it because
I loved her book The Forgotten Garden, however the latter was noticeably much
better.
