'The suspense will have you turning the pages long into the night.' Good Reading, 4 stars 'The Distant Hours is an engrossing tale full of secrets waiting to be told.' Bookseller & Publisher, 4 stars Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long-lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen-year-old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 children's classic The True History of the Mud Man. In the grand and glorious Milderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also, ultimately, the dangers.
Title: The Distant Hours
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Kate Morton
ISBN 13: 9781742376417
ISBN 10: 174237641X
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 31/10/2011
Place of Publication:
Sydney,
Australia
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
A823.00
(DC23)
;
A823.00
(DC22)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Height: 199mm
Width: 132mm
Weight: 580g