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The House at Riverton
Historical mystery
The House at Riverton
At ninety-eight, former housemaid Grace Bradley is approached by a filmmaker dramatizing a poet's apparent suicide at Riverton Manor in 1924. The visit awakens memories of her service to aristocratic sisters Hannah and Emmeline through war, romance, and the collapse of their privileged world. Grace alone knows that the public story of the death by the lake conceals a more painful truth. Elegiac and suspenseful, this novel suits readers who enjoy upstairs-downstairs drama, English country houses, elderly narrators, interwar society, and secrets whose burden lasts long after everyone else involved is gone.
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