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The house at Riverton : a novel
Title:
The house at Riverton : a novel
Uniform Title:
Shifting fog
ISBN:
9781416550532
Publication Information:
New York : Washington Square Press, 2009, c2006
Physical Description:
viii, 473 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published as: Shifting fog. Australia : Allen & Unwin, 2006.
Summary:
Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever. --
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