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The Distant Hours

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A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Ju...more

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Published November 9th 2010 by Atria Books (first published October 2nd 2010)

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Dec 11, 2011 Anna rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dual-timeline, 1-star, read-in-2011, world-war-two

I adored Kate Morton’s The House At Riverton (4.5 stars) and The Forgotten Garden (5 stars), but delayed reading The Distant Hours after hearing so many bad reviews about it from people who, like me, loved her first two books. I finally decided to take the plunge, hoping to disagree with the bad reviews.

Sadly, I don't. The Distant Hours is packed full of unnecessary detail and description. On and on it goes, page after page of long-winded waffle, page after page of no dialogue, no action and no...more

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Dec 21, 2010 Jeanette rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-fiction, did-not-work-for-me

Did you ever go to a Tupperware party where the hostess spent forever demonstrating all the gadgets in a dramatically effervescent voice? And at the end nobody bought anything? And there weren't even any refreshments being served to make it worth having shown up? And you didn't like any of the other people who came to the party?
This book is that party---all elaborate demonstration, no sale, no refreshment, and no one I care about.

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Jan 18, 2012 Carol rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I welled up when this book ended & not just because I hated to see it end. One could weep over the sad lives of the 3 Blythe sisters, now elderly, & living with secrets that are beautifully & gradually revealed. The story jumps from the 1990's in London to the Milderhurst Castle during W.W.II and the present. When Edie Burchill encounters the 3 elderly sisters she is drawn into a family of secrets, whose "distant hours" are simply a wonder to read. It may be the best I've read since...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Filipa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, not-own, portuguese-books, historical-romance, 2012-reads, blogring

Todos os leitores têm as suas pequenas manias, por muito estranhas que sejam. Eu, tenho várias, sendo que uma delas consiste em ler, por ordem de publicação, as obras de um autor/a - nos casos, em que as mesmas são individuais, claro. Por isso mesmo, parece estranho e altamente contraditório eu dizer que a minha estreia com esta autora se fez de uma maneira completamente oposta. Infelizmente, não tive mesmo opção (por este livro me ter sido emprestado pelo blogue My Imaginarium) e tive de lhe da...more

Todos os leitores têm as suas pequenas manias, por muito estranhas que sejam. Eu, tenho várias, sendo que uma delas consiste em ler, por ordem de publicação, as obras de um autor/a - nos casos, em que as mesmas são individuais, claro. Por isso mesmo, parece estranho e altamente contraditório eu dizer que a minha estreia com esta autora se fez de uma maneira completamente oposta. Infelizmente, não tive mesmo opção (por este livro me ter sido emprestado pelo blogue My Imaginarium) e tive de lhe dar prioridade especial. Assim, vejo-me a fazer a minha estreia com Kate Morton com o livro que mais recentemente foi publicado em terras lusas.
Já muito ouvi falar sobre a autora e o entusiasmo para a conhecer era elevado. Agarrei-me sofregamente à obra, que com 500 e poucas páginas, me deixava com água na boca. E assim, parti à descoberta.

Milderhurst é uma povoação muito curiosa, especialmente porque o castelo residente da terra tem uma história familiar complexa e envolta em mistério. As suas paredes respiram segredos e não permitem que estes sejam libertados para o mundo exterior. A propriedade, herança e lar de inúmeras gerações da família Blythe tem-se mantido vivo, alimentado por todos estes mistérios, apesar da sua aparência exterior já denotar cansaço.
Mas, este reinado secretivo está prestes a chegar a um fim, na sequência de uma carta que suscita uma cadeia de acontecimentos que irão acabar por pôr em acção uma queda sucessiva em padrão dominó.
O mistério prende-se com as três irmãs Blythe e uma jovem que albergaram na sua casa, no início da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Meredith Burchill, descobre em Milderhurst um mundo completamente à parte da guerra: descobre o mundo admirável e repleto de possibilidades da literatura e a convivência com as irmãs Blythe é uma experiência única na sua vida, até agora. Meredith acaba até por criar uma amizade muito íntima com a mais nova das irmãs Blythe: Juniper. No entanto, algo acontece e as duas acabam por viver vidas completamente à parte uma da outra e a amizade acaba por se deteriorar de uma maneira sem igual. Os destinos destas quatro pessoas poderiam ter sido muito diferentes, apenas se....

Até que, 50 anos depois, Edie - filha de Meredith - decide desenterrar este mistério e descobrir como foi a vida da mãe nos anos em que viveu com as irmãs Blythe. No entanto, aquilo que acaba por ser uma viagem ao passado para saciar a curiosidade de uma filha acaba por se revelar no desenterrar de muitos outros segredos que o Castelo de Milderhurst há muito escondia...e que finalmente, virão à superfície.

Não é segredo nenhum que costumo interessar-me em livros que tenham como foco a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No entanto, raros foram os livros que encontrei que explorassem uma perspectiva diferente daquela que é normalmente explorada: o relato de acontecimentos pelo lado dos alemães. Portanto, foi com entusiasmo que vi a perspectiva britânica a ser aprofundada. Contudo, esta é uma temática que irá interessar-me sempre, seja de que perspectiva for.
O livro foca-se em dois períodos temporais: 1939-1941 (passado) e os acontecimentos presentes que tomam lugar no ano de 1992.
A autora construiu aqui um mistério muito interessante e a sua estrutura está muito bem pensada e executada. A sua escrita é agradável e igualmente bem estruturada. Não é uma escrita simplória, mas também não é pesada. Apesar de o livro se focar em períodos temporais distintos, a autora organizou o enredo de uma forma muito simples, em que o leitor facilmente consegue acompanhar o fio condutor dos acontecimentos sem ficar perdido no tempo.
No entanto, é preciso referir que a autora se perde um pouco nas descrições, o que acabou por me cansar algumas vezes. Existe especialmente uma parte da obra onde a falta de acção é notória e que me desalentou um pouco, embora no final tenha percebido que as descrições foram importantes para o contexto histórico das personagens e do próprio enredo e mal essa parte passou, a leitura fez-se de uma forma voraz.

Com tudo isto, confesso que a obra no geral está muito bem pensada e senti um prazer imenso em chegar ao final e poder deslindar o grande mistério que circundava o castelo de Milderhurst. Por isso mesmo, acabei por gostar mais deste livro do que estava à espera. A autora acabou por se revelar uma contadora de histórias viciante e que conseguiu captar o meu interesse.

Se recomendo a leitura? Recomendo, se bem que com algumas reservas, mas quem gosta de uma narrativa vagarosa, que misture segredos do passado com os problemas do presente, tem aqui uma leitura prazenteira.
Se pretendo ler os outros livros da autora? Pretendo, sem dúvida. É uma autora que merece toda a atenção, porque acredito no seu potencial. Com isto, a minha próxima leitura será "O Segredo da Casa de Riverton" e no próximo mês, conto ler a restante obra publicada: "O Jardim dos Segredos". (less)

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Nov 17, 2012 Janset Atacan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: drama, mystery-crime-thriller

Oh,tanrım.Derin bir nefes almalıyım,çünkü bu kitap beni bir şeyler hissetmeye zorladı.Acı,sevgi,dostluk ve sahip olamamanın acısı*
Nereden başlamalıyım bilmiyorum,hatta bu kitabın sonu ve başlangıcı olup olmadığından bile emin değilim.
Kitap Çamur Adamın Hikayesi'nin giriş bölümüyle başlıyor.Çamur Adam,küçük bir kızın kabusu ve umudunu yitirmiş bir adamın yeni serüveni.
Blytheler Milderhurst Kalesi'nde yaşayan 3 kız kardeş.Hikayeleri çok eskilere dayanıyor.
Juniper;uçarı bir genç kız.Kanında ''delil...more

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Aug 30, 2011 Roger Kean rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Is Kate Morton a women's writer? As an Ann Tyler and Maeve Binchy fan, I wouldn't know. I loved Morton's previous two books, and this one is even better. Flying back and forth in time between the evacuation of children from London prior to the blitz of 1941 and the modern day (1992), Book editor Edie Burchill uncovers the truth behind the creation of "The True History of the Mud Man," a spectacularly successful children's story written by the patriarch of Milderhurst Castle in Kent, now in the p...more

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Feb 04, 2011 Hannah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads, houses-as-characters, gothics

I loved Morton's earlier novel, The Forgotten Garden, and had high expectations for this one as well. If this book wasn't tailored made for my reading tastes, I don't know what would be:
- Ancient castle in the bucholic English countryside
- Past and present plotlines weaving and intersecting
- Homage to books, readers and the written word
- Gothic elements galore (including madness, forbidden love, family secrets, a lost letter, and a creepy children's story)

However, by the end of this massive 560...more

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Mar 07, 2011 Stacy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

I have recently finished reading this book and I just loved it! I had it finished in a week. A few times a got a little frustrated wanting to know the secrets but the wait was well worth it. There are a lot of secrets in this book.

I was worried it wasn't going to stack up to her two previous books due to some 'not so good' reviews I've read and heard. This book is a lot darker than her other two, but similar in the switching back and forth from the present to the past. Again, I love the way she...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Neide Parafitas rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: own, leituras-2013

A chegada de uma carta às mãos de Meredith dá início a esta história. Esta fica muito perturbada e Eddie (filha de Meredith) apercebe-se de que a carta deverá conter algo que significa mais para a mãe do que esta quer fazer crer. Curiosa, Eddie decide visitar o Castelo de Milderhurst, de onde parece ter vindo a carta...

Eddie conhece assim três irmãs que viveram durante toda a sua vida nesse castelo: Persephone (Percy), Saphine ( Saffy) e Juniper. Esta última, descobre Eddie, ficou louca após ter...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Jennifer Jensen (Literally Jen) marked it as dnf · review of another edition

I absolutely loved The Forgotten Garden and really enjoyed The House at Riverton, so why did I have so much trouble getting into this one?

I have been picking this book up, putting it down again, and then leaving it alone for huge chunks of time. Then I feel obligated to go back to reading it, and have to "assign" myself page numbers to read or I just won't do it. That's not at all what reading should be about.

It could just be a mood thing on this one, but after reading so many negative reviews o...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Christy B rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arcs-and-galleys, favorites, fiction, historical-fiction, wwii, mystery

I read the last hundred pages of The Distant Hours in the middle of a pretty intense storm. This just brought me even deeper into the story, where I felt as though I was a part of it. People who have finished The Distant Hours will know what I'm talking about.

I'm such a huge Kate Morton fan. I raved over her two previous books: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden, so when I heard about The Distant Hours a year ago, I could not wait for it. I had such high expectations, and I figured,...more I read the last hundred pages of The Distant Hours in the middle of a pretty intense storm. This just brought me even deeper into the story, where I felt as though I was a part of it. People who have finished The Distant Hours will know what I'm talking about.

I'm such a huge Kate Morton fan. I raved over her two previous books: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden, so when I heard about The Distant Hours a year ago, I could not wait for it. I had such high expectations, and I figured, for once, I wouldn't be let down by them.

I was right. Oh, was I right. The Distant Hours was such a lush, dark, beautiful, sad, novel. I felt myself lost in it every time I picked it up. The mystery and the scenery. I was so caught up.

The story starts when a lost 50 year old letter arrives in the post. Edie watches her mother's reaction as she reads the letter and Edie immediately becomes curious. The curiosity leads her to Milderhurst Castle, home to the sisters Blythe and home to Edie's mother during the London Blitz. Edie finds twin sisters Percy and Saffy and their younger sister Juniper, who hasn't been quite the same since her fiancée abandoned her 50 years ago.

Edie finds there is much to their story. Much more. Nothing is as it seems, of course. Stories and legends that have been around for decades prove to be untrue. Just when you think you've got something figured out, you are not even close.

That happened to me. Many times. I wasn't right about a darn thing. Nothing was as it seemed. And even at the end, we find out that Edie's conclusion - what she believed was the truth - wasn't correct. However, it didn't matter. No matter how you looked at it, the ending was sad.

The Distant Hours was more character driven than plot driven, so therefore it's not for readers who like fast moving plots. The story weaves in and out of 1941 and 1992, switching back and forth seamlessly.

I took my time with this one, despite my desire to find out what happens, because I wanted it to last as long as possible. Like her previous novels, Morton has written another story that has permanently attached itself to my imagination. Its ending never leaving me. All the sad 'what ifs'.(less)

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Oct 31, 2010 Abigail rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After Morton's fantastic The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden, I had incredibly high expectations of The Distant Hours. When it finally arrived pre-ordered from Amazon, almost 700 pages long and complete with one of those ribbon bookmark things sewn into the binding, I dove in. While Morton's latest has a lot of the elements that made her previous work shine -- literary and family mysteries, an old house full of secrets, tragic love affairs, lost letters, an engaging protagonist -- the...more

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Dec 21, 2010 Julie marked it as abandoned · review of another edition

Shelves: disappointments-of-2010

I'm so disappointed! I was looking forward to sinking into a sweet, lovingly told tale full of gothic mansions, sweeping vistas of moors and valleys, mysteries of love and other ghosts. I'm sure these elements are all to be found in Kate Morton's latest, but the voice of her protagonist irks me like jam between my fingers, a pebble in my sock, the plastic nub of a price tag scratching at my neck. I couldn't bear to spend 560 pages listening to her chirping. Morton's prose has devolved from charm...more

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May 12, 2013 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery-suspense, history

The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton, is a tragic, gothic tale of three sisters living in an old castle in England. It flows back and forth in time between WWII and modern times (early 1990s): the main contemporary character, Edie, discovers that her mother stayed for a time in this castle as a child during the war. She becomes intrigued by the castle and its inhabitants (the same three sisters who cared for Edie's mother during the war now still live there in their elder years), and gradually unco...more

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May 22, 2013 Regan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: buddy-reads, favorites

This was my first read by Kate Morton...and wow...absolutely stunning. I was completely lost in this novel and spent a good solid two days doing nothing but reading. I was constantly guessing at the many secrets and proved pleasantly right sometimes and shocked at others. The mixture of past and present, unfolding of long kept secrets, and deep insights from many points of view made this book perfection to me.

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Jul 19, 2012 Cora rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Totalmente decepcionante.
Después de un planteamiento prometedor sobre castillos, secretos y misterios con un toque gótico, a partir de la mitad del libro he leído en diagonal.
Primero he tenido que superar parte del libro narrada en primera persona con continuas interrupciones de otros puntos de vista en tercera persona; eso no queda bien.
La autora hace un esfuerzo por mantener el interés en un misterio con una historia larguísima en la que no pasa absolutamente nada, llena de descripciones e his...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, all-time-favorites, british, historical-fiction, mystery-suspense

I simply loved this book. I discovered last year that I am a Kate Morton fan and this book certainly did not disappoint. This definitely had elements of the "Gothic novel" though I've never really thought of myself as a gothic novel fan. An old castle in the remote English countryside, mysterious goings on at the castle that make us wonder, "a dark and stormy night" type story that makes you want to curl up by the fire with this book and a warm blanket! All those elements are here so if that's y...more

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May 01, 2012 Anna-Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Anna-Lisa by: Idril

Shelves: adventure, family, historical, romance

This was an amazing story with a great writing style and a great atmosphere. I couldn't lay the book down I just had to keep on reading!

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London, 1940: Die junge Meredith wird evakuiert und kommt nach Milderhurst Castle. Dort lebt sie bei dem Schriftsteller Raymond Blythe und dessen exzentrischen Töchtern. Sie taucht ein in eine Welt der Fantasie und der Geschichten. Doch dann passiert etwas, das ihr Leben für immer verändert. Viele Jahre später findet Merediths Tochte...more

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Jun 21, 2012 Clarinda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: leituras-2012

Com uma forma muito própria de contar histórias e com uma linguagem muito rica e bem estruturada, Kate Morton, aposta na alternância passado/presente da narrativa para nos prender do princípio ao fim do livro. Houve uma altura que “arrefeceu” um pouco a narrativa, mas com a continuação da leitura apercebemo-nos de que essa parte da história é importantíssima para a sua compreensão. O enredo bem construído leva-nos a uma leitura intensa, cheia de mistérios de morte e amor, perdidos nas horas dist...more

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Mar 19, 2012 Tinkerbell - Blog MyImaginarium rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

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Sempre tive um interesse enorme em ler os livros de Kate Morton. Tive a minha primeira oportunidade em “As horas distantes”.
O livro é um género que mistura especialmente elementos de romance e fantasia.
A personagem principal é Edith, que após a mãe receber uma carta extraviada nos correios por mais de 50 anos, irá ficar obecada em descobrir o segredo que liga a mãe ao remetente da carta.
A acção decorre em duas épocas: Na época presente, representada por Ed...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Julie Goucher rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library-books

The book starts with a letter posted 50 years previous delivered to Edie's mother. From that moment on Edie, a book editor, is thrown into intrigue about her mother's life during war torn London, and her mother's evacuation to Kent. Edie's mother, Meredith is sent to live with three sisters and their father at Milderhurst Castle in Kent. The father, is non other than the author of a favourite book of Edie's. A chance visit for work sends Edie to Kent where she decides, rather last minute to visi...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Veronica rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I was very disappointed with this. I enjoyed her two previous books, without thinking they were masterpieces -- just long, lazy holiday reads. But this one began to seem awfully long, with too little substance and far too much padding. From the start, I felt the present-day first person narrative and the parts told in the third person and set in 1941 didn't sit well together. I did enjoy the 1941 parts at first; Middleton is still superb at evoking an atmosphere in the past with lots of period d...more

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Jan 02, 2011 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, european-history, fiction, historical-fiction, mystery

I do not like to write a review immediately after I finish a book. I like to give myself some time to process what I read and decide how I really felt about it, and for this I am glad. Because while I was reading Kate Morton's newest novel, I found myself getting frustrated at her descriptive text, wanting only to know the story, more about the people. But with that I realized I devoured this novel, because I wanted to know the secrets behind Milderhurst Castle and it's occupants, the Sisters Bl...more

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Feb 02, 2011 Margaret rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: didn-t-finish

I abandoned the effort to read The Distant Hours about a third of the way in. I don’t know quite what to make of Kate Morton, whose writing (at least for me) gets increasingly annoying with every book she publishes. At some point she has begun to confuse languor with atmosphere, and the pace of this book is like sitting on the leading edge of an advancing glacier. It could be millennia before it gets where it’s going. Morton is plainly far more interested in the details of setting and landscape...more

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Nov 11, 2010 Erin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Any book over 500 pages makes me narrow my eyes suspiciously. There is so much room for extraneous things in a book that size. I was pleasantly surprised to find nothing extraneous whatsoever in The Distant Hours. It’s so long because Morton doesn’t just focus on a few main mysteries. Instead, she weaves in all manner of smaller unknowns that click into place one by one, usually just when the reader has nearly forgotten about them completely. The result is an extremely complex and masterfully wo...more

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Oct 17, 2010 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-mt-bookpile

How can you not love a book that includes the following: "After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader."?

While the blurb calls this "gothic literature", it's more goth lit lite - the scary isn't there to the degree that I'd expect from that genre. Think more Rebecca than "Fall of the House of Usher." The switching between 1941 and 1992 helps, I think, keep the tone light. Of course there are some Dark Family Secrets that get revealed, and a Li...more

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Apr 27, 2011 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: england, favorite-authors, favorites

Of the three Morton novels thus far, this latest offering is my third favorite. That doesn't mean it wasn't a great read, just that this particular one for me was a bit too depressing in its wasted potential of human lives. Again, that doesn't mean I'm sorry that I read it. Kate Morton knows how to tell a great tale, and The Distant Hours has plenty to grab and keep your attention. The Blythe sisters were compelling characters, with their life stories taking wonderful twists and turns. The castl...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Elizabeth by: Stephanie

Shelves: fiction, 2011

Kate Morton's third novel, The Distant Hours explores the unearthing of hidden histories within the faded fairytale setting of Milderhurst Castle. Edie Burchill learns that her mother was a resident of the castle as a guest of the three Blythe sisters when she was evacuated from London during the second World War. When her mother receives a long-lost letter from the youngest sister, Juniper, Edie is set on a quest to learn more about her mother's life and her relationship with the Blythe sisters...more

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Dec 28, 2012 AmyFlo rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mar 08, 2011 Rusty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction

The story is complex with surprises at every turn. I particularly liked the narrator, Edith Burchill, known as Edie, because she is so real. The three spinster sisters - Juniper, Saffy and Percy - have a strange, haunted background. Sheltered from life by their isolation in Milderhurst Castle and cherished by a doting wealthy father, they find themselves unable to live the lives they have dreamed with the loves of their lives. Why they cannot do so is what this story is all about. My only concer...more

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Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of southeast Queensland, Australia. She has degrees in Dramatic Art and English Literature and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Queensland. Kate lives with her husband and two young sons in Brisbane.
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“I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I don’t mean that in a sad and lonely way; I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m good with words, but not spoken kind; I’ve often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper. And I suppose, in a sense, that’s what I do, for I’ve hundreds of the other sort, the friends contained within bindings, pages after glorious pages of ink, stories that unfold the same way every time but never lose their joy, that take me by the hand and lead me through doorways into worlds of great terror and rapturous delight. Exciting, worthy, reliable companions - full of wise counsel, some of them - but sadly ill-equipped to offer the use of a spare bedroom for a month or two.” — 96 people liked it

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