Love in its various forms is always a driving force of the narrative and as the reader, you’re given access to more than one character’s inner-most thoughts. "Morton’s writing style is typically unhurried, and the story’s many threads take almost 600 pages to come together, but at no point does it feel as if it’s dragging."Īny fan of Morton’s works ( The Lake House is her fifth) will know that she gives her characters a rich emotional life. Wrestling with her own demons and on enforced professional leave, she comes across Theo’s case-and makes it her mission to uncover the truth. A successful and elderly crime author, many of her books draw inspiration from her own real-life tragic history: her baby brother Theo went missing from his crib when Alice was just a teenager, and the mystery has remained unsolved for decades.Įnter detective Sadie Sparrow. The Lake House opens with focus on the stern yet sympathetic character, Alice Edevane. Her latest novel, The Lake House, is similar in both tone and style to her debut-featuring the sort of expansive, absorbing, heart-wrenching story that is swiftly becoming the trademark of this Australian author. Kate Morton burst onto the literary scene in 2007 with The House at Riverton, which rapidly became a bestseller across the globe. The bestselling storyteller Kate Morton, author of The House at Riverton, is at her finest with this mystery set in Cornwall in the 1930s.
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