On My Nightstand - The House at Riverton

The House at Riverton - by Kate Morton

This book is written by the same author who wrote The Secret Garden, so when I saw this book at Costco, I decided to give it a try.

The House at Riverton is just as good, if not better than The Secret Garden.

I loved it!


On the back cover:

Grace Bradley was just a girl when she began working as a servant at Riverton House. For years, her life was inextricably tied up with the glamorous and eccentric Hartford family's daughters. Hannah and Emmeline. Then, at a glittering society party in the summer of 1924, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline, and only they - and Grace - know the dark truth.

Many years later, when Grace is living out her last days in a nursing home, she receives a visit from a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. The director takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories of the last days of Edwardian aristocratic priviledge, of the vibrant twenties and of a stunning secret that Grace kept all her life.

My rating: 4 out of 5!