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The House at Riverton

By: Kate Morton
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
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Summer 1924: on the night of a glittering society party by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses are sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, and they will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and 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.

Set as the Edwardian summer finally surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a multi-million-copy bestselling novel and one of the most successful debuts of all time.

2007, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) General Fiction Book of the Year, Winner

2008, Galaxy National Book Awards, Short-listed

2007, The Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year, Winner

2010, Nielsen Gold Book Award, Winner

Golden Pan Award, UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Winner

2009, Indie Next Outstanding Debut, Winner

©2006 Kate Morton (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing
20th Century Historical Mystery Exciting
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Critic reviews

"Combines a rich historical setting with a powerful emotional drama – and a gripping mystery." (The Australian Women's Weekly)

"An extraordinary debut." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"A rollicking good yarn of the sort you might devour in a single weekend." (Vogue)

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The house of Riverton

This was quite the interesting read it took me awhile to get into it.
Maybe I was just distracted

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Attention to historical details

I enjoy the attention to historical detail Grace lives a long life of secrets and promises

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Downton Abbey, extended episode

This book was not at all what I was expecting but as it resembled a very long episode at Downton (which I adore), I stuck with it. Grace and Hannah are very similar to Anna and Lady Mary (the narrator sounds almost identical to Mary when speaking Hannah's parts) and overall, with that as comparison, this made for an enjoyable listen. It's a rather undeveloped plot all on its own, though. The gothic mystery I was expecting was neither gothic nor mystery.

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Stunning story and narration

Phenomenal experience listening to this novel by Kate Morton! Her characters are written with such depth. They are complicated, flawed, real, and compelling. Fell in love with Grace the protagonist and sisters Hannah and Emmeline. The male characters were mostly doomed by being in the company of female power and grit. Nobody else writes like Kate Morton.

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A compilation of tropes and borrowed scenes

Maybe I didn’t get the author’s intentions but the lack of original story and characters rendered the drama and it’s inhabitants two dimensional and unsympathetic.

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Average

Didn’t like the narrator. Story is typical and long. Don’t understand the great reviews. Guessed the ending …..

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Great story

Loved the story, well researched from historical perspective. My only criticism with this audiobook is the narrator didn’t do justice to a couple of the secondary characters, Debra and Emmaline. They came across as too unlikable. But good storytelling

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Another Kate Morton favorite

Beautiful story and excellent narrator. I am an eighty three years old Spanish speaker reader and I enjoyed every single second listening to to this book.

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Beautiful

I can’t believe this was Kate Morton’s first book. It was really a lovely and engrossing tale.

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Best thing I’ve read in quite a while.

I very much appreciate the research which was obviously done to keep this book authentic. There are well fleshed out characters and an interesting storyline. It was engaging to read the author’s take on the influence of the nouveau riche Americans on the lives of the declining aristocracy of Great Britain. I find the loyalty of those “in service” intriguing. A very fine read with genuine glimpses of the individual perspectives of each of the characters. If this author’s books are of consistent quality, I’ll keep reading her work.

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