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100 1 _aMorton, Kate,
_d1976-
240 1 0 _aShifting fog
245 1 4 _aThe house at Riverton :
_ba novel /
_cKate Morton.
250 _a1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bWashington Square Press,
_c2006
300 _aviii, 473 p. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"Originally published in Australia in 2006 as The Shifting Fog by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
520 _aGrace 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.
650 0 _aWomen household employees
_vFiction.
650 0 _aReminiscing in old age
_vFiction.
650 0 _aUpper class families
_vFiction.
650 0 _aPoets
_xCrimes against
_vFiction.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xSocial life and customs
_y1918-1945
_vFiction.
651 0 _aEngland
_vFiction.
655 7 _aMystery fiction.
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