Description
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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I really enjoyed this book. It is semi-historical, and entirely enjoyable. The characters are fantastic, and the settings even better. This book is a complete escape, easy to jump into and get away. I had a really hard time putting this book down. After reading it, I read everything else Kate Morton has written!
I really enjoyed this book I got it at an event otherwise I probably wouldn't have looked twice at it on the store shelf. It's the story of a woman named Grace in her 90s who was once a handmaid at a grand mansion called Riverton where she witnessed a terrible tragedy in the 1920s. A filmmaker making a story about the incident tracks her down to learn about her experience there, not realizing what a pivotal role she played.
It's richly, beautifully told and I was drawn in right from the beginning. It flashes back and forth between present day and the past but not in a confusing way.
After I finished reading it I shared it with my mom.
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