The house at Riverton : a novel
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The house at Riverton : a novel
AUTHOR:
Morton, Kate, 1976-
ISBN:
9781416550532
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York [etc.] : Washington Square Press, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
viii, 473, [10] p. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
Summary: 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.
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 |
| Mystery fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
Summary: 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.