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The house at Riverton : a novel

Morton, Kate, 1976-

2009

Overview

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--From publisher description.

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Subject: Women household employees Fiction. / Reminiscing in old age Fiction. / Upper class families Fiction. / Poets Crimes against Fiction. / Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction. / England Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781416550532, 1416550534

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9619.4.M74 S55 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE