This gorgeous debut novel is set in England between the two World Wars. The story of an aristocratic family, a mysterious death, and a vanishing way of life is told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept secrets for more than 50 years.
From the author of "The House at Riverton" comes a story of outer and inner journeys. An homage to the power of storytelling, "The Forgotten Garden" is filled with unforgettable characters who weave their way through its intricate plot to astounding effect.
From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity --among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. Drawing on the Greek and Lycian ...
A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades ...
A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery - The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved ...
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, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: France Loisirs
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: France Loisirs
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: France Loisirs
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Editions France Loisirs
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
Date Published: 1948
Description: Shillabeer, Mary. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean Copy numerous delightful b/w illustrations, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial cover, text clean and tight. read more
Edition: 1st ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
Date Published: 1948
Description: Illus by Mary Shillabeer. Very good in good dust jacket. B/w illustrations. Name in ink to verso of half-title. Dustwrapper: price clipped. Edge-chipped. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1948
Date Published: 1948
Description: 1st edn. HB. Cloth. DW. VG/G-. DW Grubby anf chipped, tears at top andbottom of spine wit loss affecting text, large tear with loss on rear panel. read more
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