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The Distant Hours

The Distant Hours( )
Author: Morton, Kate
ISBN:978-1-60285-899-2
Publication Date:Dec 2010
Publisher:Center Point Large Print
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.95
Book Description:

It all started with a letter that had been lost for a long time - fifty years in an attic in a forgotten postal bag. Edie Burchill and her mother were never close, but when that long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a twelve year old, Edie's mother was taken by the mysterious Juniper Blythe to...
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Morton, Kate (Author)
Kate Morton was born in South Australia in 1976. She earned a degree in speech and drama from Trinity College London, an English literature degree from the University of Queensland, and a master's degree focusing on tragedy in Victorian literature from the University of Queensland. She also completed a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program researching contemporary novels that marry elements of gothic and mystery fiction.

She won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2007 for her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, also known as The House at Riverton. Her other books include The Distant Hours, and The Forgotten Garden, which won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2009. Her books The Secret Keeper and The Lake House were New York Times bestsellers.

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