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Kate Morton
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Pages: 350 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0330449605
Pub: Pan Books
Pub date: 2008-06-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25
Reader Reviews:
A Fantastic Read (0/0 people found this helpful)
Read this book in a weekend, couldn't put it down. Enjoyed "The House at Riverton", but this was even better.
Better than the House at Riverton (0/0 people found this helpful)
This book is wonderful, i couldn't really get into the House at Riverton but i couldn't put this one down, i loved it!!
Memorable forever (1/1 people found this helpful)
I don't know where to start but I couldn't wait to pick up this new book having read House at Riverton. Kate M does not dissappoint she draws you in and creates an atmosphere you want to be enveloped by. At times I felt I was there watching the story unfold. Her research must be unending as all points seem so correct from Brisbane to England I can not fault it.
I dare to actually say this one is better than her debut novel but only just! The chapters seamlessly take us from one era to another filling in story gaps and taking us a step further.
I hope there will be another soon and that no one tells Kate M to change her writing style its fantastic and long will her books stay in my favourites list.
If you have not tried her books this is highly recommended I wish we could give more than five stars it deserves them.
The Forgotten Garden forgotten no more (2/3 people found this helpful)
This book was wonderful. A fantastic follow up to the House at Riverton. Within the first few pages we are caught up with the little girl and The Authoress. It pieces the story together so that you relish in the characters and hold your breath along with them. A very good buy. Highly recommended.
Unputdownable! (3/3 people found this helpful)
I found this as engrossing as her debut which I read earlier this year. This time Kate Morton has written an intriguing mystery that started in the 1900's and is not fully unravelled until 2005. It is told as three stories covering three generations combining to give us clues along the way.
Maybe the ending was a little predictable but I certainly did not guess all the answers to the mysteries along the way.
The protagonist is Nell around who the whole mystery centres. The story starts in London when Nell as a little girl finds herself unexpectedly travelling by ship to Australia alone. The lady she calls the Authoress having mysteriously disappeared instead of looking after her as promised. Arriving in Australia as an orphan she is given a home by Hugh a dock worker who finds her alone on the dockside on her arrival in Maryborough. It is only on her 21st birthday she learns of her mysterious arrival in Australia, a secret that changes her life dramatically.
It is many years later in 1975 that she embarks upon a search for the truth about her birth and early years. Drawn to Cornwall by information she has discovered, she finds herself buying a cottage in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor once owned by the Mountrachet family. She plans to return to England to live in her new cottage after sorting out her affairs back in Australia. However life intervened and Nell never returned to Cornwall, the ownership of the cottage remaining her secret.
On her death in 2005 Nell leaves the cottage as a surprise inheritance to her granddaughter Cassandra. It is while visiting her inheritance that Cassandra finally uncovers the secrets surrounding the Mountrachet family Linus, his wife Adeline, their daughter Rose and cousin Eliza, daughter of Linus's sister Georgiana.
How are the family all involved in the disappearance of that little girl nearly a hundred years ago?
I am obviously not going to reveal this and spoil the mystery!
I think the author may be a fan of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett as not only does The Forgotten Garden remind me in some ways of this classic novel but its author makes an appearance in the story!
I read it far too quickly for a novel that is nearly 650 pages. Only took two days. Ok the weather was very hot and I did not feel like doing much else, but to be honest I could not put it down!!
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