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  <title><![CDATA[The House at Riverton]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;b&gt;Summer 1924&lt;/b&gt;

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.

&lt;b&gt;Winter 1999&lt;/b&gt;

Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and old 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 war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, &lt;i&gt;The House at Riverton&lt;/i&gt; is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The House at Riverton</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kate Morton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to read this book because it looked as if it had a lot of elements I really enjoy: Gothic type mystery, haunted house, family secrets, World War I, the 1920s.  The book concerns sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, aristocratic children who grow up over the course of the book.  They chafe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40376238">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The House at Riverton tells the story of a Manor House in Essex during WW1 and the beginning of the 1920s, told from the perspective of a housemaid, now 98 and living in an old people's home in 1999. When she finds out that a film is being made of a tragic event at the house - the suicide of a young...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3262599">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An enjoyable story and a beautiful historical setting marred by clumsy story telling, overbearing foreshadowing, and an emotional disconnect with characters. ]]></body>
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    <review id="27334266">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a must read for lovers of historical novels and enthralling, well-written, atmospheric mysteries, The House at Riverton is a literary feast for those who love writers like Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan or Daphne DuMaurier and books reminiscent of The Forsythe Saga, Upstairs,Downstairs and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27334266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49478311">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had such high hopes! Our heroine, Grace, now a feisty but failing 98, spent her early life at Riverton House in the service of the Ashbury family...and then spent her adult life trying to forget about them.  However, she's contacted by a filmmaker about the mysterious suicide of a World War I poet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49478311">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36801816">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 02 21:13:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a gently-told narrative that brings the reader into the Edwardian period and takes us right through into the 1920s, with all its changes in society and mores. Living through the eyes of Grace, our narrator at the age of 98, the story comes alive. It is 1999 and her memories are awakened...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36801816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35517687">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am loosely giving this book four stars but it is my own fault that I did not enjoy it more.  I happened to read the last page-something I generally try to avoid- and it completely mislead me.  I kept expecting some dramatic twist to explain how everything wrapped up to be the happily ever after en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35517687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11624249">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm... Very readable, moving at times, and full of suspense. However, some slightly irritating traits, ie. 'non-Englishisms'<br/>Kate Morton talks about 'Morning Tea', English people never, ever have this!! It's Afternoon Tea, or High Tea, if you're going to be really upper class!! There are many ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11624249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23012135">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful characters, setting, plot, I can't say enough.  I was pleased that I was unable to guess the truth behind the secret at the end of the novel.  I was surprised at the end which makes a work that much better in my mind.  If you enjoyed Water For Elephants or The 13th Tale, you will like this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23012135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31011369">
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this. High drama and love triangles at the country estate of a rich family during the Edwardian era -- all ending in the famous suicide on the family estate of a post-war poet. What could go wrong? Well, as it turns out, it could feel like a cobbled-together collection of Upstairs-D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31011369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74984045">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sisters &amp; Husbands is the long-awaited sequel to Connie Briscoe's first novel, Sister's &amp; Lovers, which was published more than 10 years ago. This story about Evelyn, Charmaine, and Beverly three very close sisters, focuses on the month leading up to Beverly's wedding.<br/>In her late 30s, this is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74984045">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The House at Riverton is told in the style of the Titanic - an elderly woman who once worked as a housemaid at an English estate is contacted by a filmmaker making a movie about the tragedy that took place 75 years earlier.  Memories come rushing back and she decides to make an oral history on tape ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73398374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72188661">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shifting Fog, by Kate Norton, A-minus, narrated by Caroline Lee, produced by Bolinda Audio, downloaded from audible.com.<br/><br/>Grace Bradley is now an old woman of 99 in 1998.  She has spent a lifetime trying to forget the events she witnessed on summer solstice 1924.  But now someone has c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72188661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66027334">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grace Bradley's is currently living in a nursing home. She has began to realize that her life is coming to a close when one morning an unexpected visitor walks into her life. This visitor turns out to be a woman who is directing a film about Grace's past, the days when she was a maid working at the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66027334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53180505">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one book I bought specifically because of all the five star reviews here. Sometimes I buy books based on the old cliche &quot;because of the cover&quot; and sometimes I buy them because I'm familiar with the author. And then there's those times I'll buy them because so many other readers hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53180505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a perfect, engaging summer read. The plot could be said to be predictable, and derivative of greater works like Rebecca or The Blind Assassin (acknowledged by Morton in her afterword), and you can guess one of the secrets very early on (long before Grace does!). But Morton cleverly interleav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50169987">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ninety-eight Grace Bradley knows the truth behind the incident at Riverton Manor in the 1920s. The incident--the purported suicide of poet Robbie Hunter--also caused two sisters to stop speaking to each other and Grace herself to leave her employ at Riverton shortly thereafter. Now Grace has been ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71107838">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  My first impulse was that this book was going to be a raving favorite. I liked the characters and the setting.<br/> Then it occurred to me that the childhood pastimes were extrapolated from the Brontes, the story in the beginning much like PBS's series &quot;Upstairs, Downstairs&quot; and the end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62160800">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're looking for a book with a happy ending, this is not it.  It's my own fault, really: I should've known that any book leading up to a suicide followed by an estrangement between the two sisters who witnessed it wouldn't exactly make for light reading.<br/><br/>I enjoyed the description of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49319656">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 06:30:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow - what a great book!! I loved it! There are still some little things I'm confused about... what was the key with the box's signifcance at the end of the book? Did Grace ever go get it? And when Grace went to tell Hannah Emmaline had died, how come Hannah already knew? When there were strict rule...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73755620">more...</a>]]></body>
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