The Lake House
(Sprache: Englisch)
The beguiling fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.
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The beguiling fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.
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The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.A missing child . . .
June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.
An abandoned house . . .
Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
An unsolved mystery . . .
Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape . . .
Autoren-Porträt von Kate Morton
Morton, KateKate Morton grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland and lives now with her husband and young sons
in London. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels.
Kate has sold over ten million copies of her novels in thirty-three languages, across thirty-eight countries. The Shifting Fog, published internationally as The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours and The Secret Keeper have all been number one bestsellers around the world. Each novel won the Australian Book Industry award for General Fiction Book of the Year.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kate Morton
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2020, Main Market Ed., 608 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1447200861
- ISBN-13: 9781447200864
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Bestselling storyteller Morton excels in this mystery set against the gothic backdrop of 1930s England . . . Morton's plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters, brought together in the end by Sparrow's investigation, are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion Publishers Weekly
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