The House at Riverton
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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 additional again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director building a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace’s mind, start to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery and a compelling like tale, “The House at Riverton” will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan’s “Atonement”, L.P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between”, and lovers of the film “Gosford Park”.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, April 2008: In her cinematic debut novel, Kate Morton immerses readers in the dramas of the Ashbury family tree at their crumbling English country estate in the years surrounding World War I, an age when Edwardian civility, shaken by war, unravels into the roaring Twenties. Grace came to serve in the house as a girl. She left as a young woman, after the presumed suicide of a legendary young poet at the property’s lake. Though she has dutifully kept the family tree’s secrets for decades, memories flood back in the twilight of her life when a young filmmaker comes calling with questions about how the poet really died–and why the Ashbury sisters never again spoke to each additional afterward. With perfectly crafted prose, Morton methodically reveals how passion and fate transpired that night at the lake, with truly shocking results. Her final revelation at the tale’s close packs a satisfying (and not overly sentimental) emotional punch. –Mari Malcolm
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Really, I really liked this book, up to a certain point. The prose was lyrical, the characters well developed, and the plot turns logically set up. Even though the question of Grace’s parenthood was foreshadowed a small hamhandedly. Most of all, the language was clean. Until 80% into the book and there was “that word.” It was obviously crowbarred in by some editor or marketing agent who thinks a book won’t sell unless it appeals to the lowest common denominator. So much so that I knew I wouldn’t encounter it again and I finished reading the book. I then immediately agreed up for lost my order for The Forgotten Garden. Once an leader disrespects me like that I will not give her/him a second chance.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
First of all, I am probably not the best person to review a book by a woman – especially one of this theme. I tend to not fully engage with the female leader or her style. It’s a guy thing, not a chauvanistic thing….But here I am. But, I do like period novels and I do like a bit of mystery served up to me.
This book provides both, so I tried it.
It’s well conceived and place together. The leader has rumor has it that spent some time researching the era and has made a book with characters she obviously cares about.
On the whole I reflect the tale is fine, if not a bit light. It seems forced at times.
If you’re looking for a bit of pleeasure reading while you lounge by the pool this summer, you could do a lot worse.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The leader had a excellent sense of going back and into the world in time with Grace in modern time in a nursing home having flash backs to her years as the house maid from the age of 14 to about 25. The characters were agreed excellent imagination with likable personality. Like it until the ending which makes no sense. A sister is in like with a man she is not married to, while her younger sister has a crush on him, yet they kill him dead. In between, there is also that mystery of why Grace went to work at the Riverton, while her mother appeared to be fired from the job. And if she was truely having an affair with the lady’s son, which caused her dismissal, then 1) if I had a daughter, that would be the last place on planet I would place her in. I would take her as far away from that house as possible 2) the lady’s son is a terrible man. Rumor has it that he got his wife pregnant and the maid pregnant all at the same time, because Grace and Hannah are the same age. Now later on, after Grace’s mother dies, she suspects she may be half-sister to the rich girls she has been serving hands and knees, and yet, she does nothing to verify the truth and continues to serve the girls as their personal maid. Her aunt seems to hold the key to the secret and doesn’t appear to be keenly keeping it that way, I would suspect at first inquiry, she would spit the tale out in a heart beat. Grace even gives up like and marriage to continue to be a maid. Now how stupid is that? The movie producer turns out to be related to Grace (if Grace is truly a product of Mr Frederick). I just hope she doesn’t marry Marcus, because they can bear a stupid for a child. There is also a circle of single-moms in this tale, far too many for such an intimate group. Well, there are additional discrepencies in the time/age, but that’s minimal and you really have to keep track of it to know.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Though the description of the book promised suspense, I establish that it did not deliver. The plot twists were utterly dull and I establish the ending to be a let down. Another reason I was not fond of this book was because of the leader’s overly forced writing style. There were far too many cliches and the style of writing was too sentimental and dramatic. I felt that I wasted my time reading this book. It was not a stimulating read, but you might like it if you are a simpleton.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I rarely start a book lacking finishing it. This one went back to the library within a day. I really wanted to like it; the flyleaf description sounded heavenly – right up my alley. The characters were walking cliches.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5