The Lake House - Fine storytelling
I was thrilled and privileged to meet Kate Morton in the summer time. She was in Cornwall promoting her new book and I and several of my colleagues had the pleasure of having dinner with her.
Kate was beautiful and friendly and never seemed to tire of all the questions we bombarded her with.
She will be back in Cornwall on 30th October at Waterstones Truro at 7.p.m to talk and sign copies of her new book. I can hardly wait to meet her again and tell her how much I loved her book.
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About the book -
The following text is taken from the cover of her book.
A missing child...
June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.
An abandoned house...
Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
An unsolved mystery...
Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape...
As a huge Kate Morton fan, I was lucky enough to receive an
advanced reading copy of The Lake House and I can honestly say I absolutely
loved this book. I couldn’t put it down once I had started it. Throughout the book, the author made me believe
that I too was a detective trying to solve the mystery of the missing child.
Every time I thought I had solved the mystery, I had my suspicions scuppered when
the story took a different path. I was totally
engrossed right up to the last page.
This brilliant read is fine storytelling and one of the best
books I have read this year.
Congratulations Kate Morton, this is going to be a huge hit.
If you want to read more Cornish Fiction, I highly recommend
Winston Graham's Poldark novels
Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers
Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden
Rachel Hore - The Memory Garden
Liz Fenwick - The Cornish Affair
Santa Montefiore - Sea of Lost Love
Emylia Hall - The Sea Between us
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I hope you have enjoyed reading my review of Kate Morton's new novel The Lake House. I too am the author of two Cornish novels
Mr de Sousa's Legacy and The Blue Bay Café
Both available at Amazon and Waterstones
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#MrdeSousasLegacy
#AnnEBrockbank
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