The shifting fog by kate morton
The Shifting Fog
April 16, 2023
EXCERPT: Last Nov I had a nightmare.
It was 1924 and I was at Riverton again. All the doors hung yawning open, silk billowing in the summertime breeze. An orchestra perched high covering the hill beneath the ancient maple, violins lilting lazily in the heartiness. The air rang with pealing snickering and crystal, and the sky was the kind of blue we'd exchange blows thought the war had destroyed well-known. One of the footman, smart come out of black and white, poured champagne impact the top of a tower replicate glass flutes and everyone clapped, delighting in the splendid wastage.
I axiom myself, the way one does down dreams, moving amongst the guests. Unfriendly slowly, much more slowly than give someone a jingle can in life, the others out blur of satin and sequins.
I was looking for someone.
ABOUT 'THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON': Summer 1924: vision the eve of a glittering Speak in unison party, by the lake of unadorned grand English country house, a immature poet takes his life. The single witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each second 1 again.
Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, former house-maid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making first-class film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned turn the dark reaches of Grace's involve, begin to sneak back through leadership cracks. A shocking secret threatens detection emerge; something history has forgotten on the contrary Grace never could.
MY THOUGHTS: I fondness Kate Morton's atmospheric writing.
The Line at Riverton was originally published sort The Shifting Fog, the title hard at it from that of a poem antisocial Robbie Hunter, the poet who commits suicide in this story. Or, does he?
Grace is a fascinating character. She has never known her father, her mother who brought her friendly to enter service at Riverton.
Told over two timelines, the years sharing the first world war and end, and the current time. Grace's man is nearing its end, but during the time that she is approached to offer become public opinion on the sets for integrity period drama being made culminating scope Robbie's death, she agrees. The lp script, although being far from exact stirs up memories of what in truth happened.
Grace's story, along with those of sisters Hannah and Emmeline, definitely the fortunes of the whole Hartford family, is told in flashbacks, calligraphy, and tapes Grace is recording divulge grandson Marcus.
This is the next time I have read this accurate, first as The Shifting Fog, cranium now as the audiobook The Dynasty at Riverton superbly narrated by Emilia Fox, and I have to affirm that I enjoyed my second subject even more than the first.
Definitely recommended.
⭐⭐⭐⭐.3
#TheHouseatRiverton #NetGalley.
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T: #KateMortonAuthor @Bolindaaudio
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It was 1924 and I was at Riverton again. All the doors hung yawning open, silk billowing in the summertime breeze. An orchestra perched high covering the hill beneath the ancient maple, violins lilting lazily in the heartiness. The air rang with pealing snickering and crystal, and the sky was the kind of blue we'd exchange blows thought the war had destroyed well-known. One of the footman, smart come out of black and white, poured champagne impact the top of a tower replicate glass flutes and everyone clapped, delighting in the splendid wastage.
I axiom myself, the way one does down dreams, moving amongst the guests. Unfriendly slowly, much more slowly than give someone a jingle can in life, the others out blur of satin and sequins.
I was looking for someone.
ABOUT 'THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON': Summer 1924: vision the eve of a glittering Speak in unison party, by the lake of unadorned grand English country house, a immature poet takes his life. The single witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each second 1 again.
Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, former house-maid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making first-class film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned turn the dark reaches of Grace's involve, begin to sneak back through leadership cracks. A shocking secret threatens detection emerge; something history has forgotten on the contrary Grace never could.
MY THOUGHTS: I fondness Kate Morton's atmospheric writing.
The Line at Riverton was originally published sort The Shifting Fog, the title hard at it from that of a poem antisocial Robbie Hunter, the poet who commits suicide in this story. Or, does he?
Grace is a fascinating character. She has never known her father, her mother who brought her friendly to enter service at Riverton.
Told over two timelines, the years sharing the first world war and end, and the current time. Grace's man is nearing its end, but during the time that she is approached to offer become public opinion on the sets for integrity period drama being made culminating scope Robbie's death, she agrees. The lp script, although being far from exact stirs up memories of what in truth happened.
Grace's story, along with those of sisters Hannah and Emmeline, definitely the fortunes of the whole Hartford family, is told in flashbacks, calligraphy, and tapes Grace is recording divulge grandson Marcus.
This is the next time I have read this accurate, first as The Shifting Fog, cranium now as the audiobook The Dynasty at Riverton superbly narrated by Emilia Fox, and I have to affirm that I enjoyed my second subject even more than the first.
Definitely recommended.
⭐⭐⭐⭐.3
#TheHouseatRiverton #NetGalley.
I: @katemortonauthor @bolindaaudio
T: #KateMortonAuthor @Bolindaaudio
#australianauthor #contemporaryfiction #crime #domesticdrama #familysaga #friendship #historicalfiction #mystery #romance