Morton's moody, suspenseful latest is the perfect page-turner for a chilly night * People Magazine * And that makes them perfect books for just about every reader * Library Journal * Mysteries at the core, they draw depth and appeal from her carefully applied layers of family, history, and moral conundrum. Once again she delivers the satisfactions of all her best sellers. Delicious and chunky * Sunday Mirror *Ī skilfully imagined story of love, loss and family secrets * Woman & Home * Morton's plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters, brought together in the end by Sparrow's investigation, are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion * Publishers Weekly *Īn historic house, a long buried mystery, a dash of romance - familiar ingredients for Morton's bestsellers. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781447200864 Number of pages: 608 Weight: 425 g Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 37 mm MEDIA REVIEWSīestselling storyteller Morton excels in this mystery set against the gothic backdrop of 1930s England. The narrative jumps back and forth, introducing the child abduction case Sadie has been forbidden to pursue, and going back to Alice’s past a year before the party, all while thickening the plots of these mysteries with different perspectives and embellishing them with secrets. Alice Edevane, who was just 16 when Theo vanished, lives in London in Sadie’s present as an elderly detective novelist who has spent her life trying to escape that terrible night. At the start of the novel it is the tragic setting for the unexplained disappearance of 11-month-old Theo Edevane on the eve of his family’s beautiful midsummer party then, 70 years later, it is the abandoned and overgrown estate that Sadie Sparrow, a London detective constable on an enforced break from the beat, discovers while running near her grandfather’s house. The Lake House is one such book, which spins the threads of three mysteries through a 70-year period, connecting them with Loenneth, a grand house in Cornwall set within an abundant lakeside garden. Having studied for the stage, she released her first novel The House at Riverton to wild acclaim in 2007, and has since continued to write ‘books she can disappear inside’. Raised on a literary diet rich in Enid Blyton tales, Kate Morton says she’s still separated from slumber at night by ‘mysteries and secrets that dance around the edges of her mind’.
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