![]() ![]() ![]() 'It's interesting' I said 'but a little slow to get going'. When I was fifty or sixty pages in to this book someone asked me if I was enjoying it. The story demands to be told, whether Grace likes it or not. She's taken to see the film set and memories she's tried to forget come flooding back. ![]() Grace had been a housemaid at Riverton and at ninety eight is probably the only person still alive who knew what the house was like at that time. In the winter of 1999 Grace Bradley is approached by a film director who wants to make a film about what happened at Riverton Manor some seventy five years before. ![]() After the tragedy the sisters never spoke to each other again. Rumour had it that Hunter was engaged to one sister but the lover of the other. There are only two witnesses to what happened - the Hartford sisters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, on the eve of a society party, there is the sound of a gun being fired and Robbie Hunter, promising poet, has committed suicide. If you read one book this summer this should probably be it. Summary: A compelling love story, a social history and a gripping mystery all rolled into one superbly-researched and well-written book. ![]()
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