The house at Riverton
About this book
Summer 1924. 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. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost 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. -- back cover.
Subjects
- authors, fiction
- country homes
- crimes against
- death
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, romance, suspense
- large type books
- poets
- reminiscing in old age
- social life and customs
- upper class families
- women domestics
- women household employees