Kate Morton Knihy

Leto 1924 Počas večierka na starobylom anglickom Rivertonskom panstve spácha samovraždu mladý anglický básnik. Jedinými svedkami jeho posledných chvíľ sú sestry Hannah a Emmeline Hartfordové, ktoré spolu viac neprehovoria. Zima 1999 Deväťdesiatosemročnú Grace Bradleyovú, ktorá zamladi pracovala na Rivertone ako slúžka, navštívi mladá filmová režisérka. Námetom jej budúceho filmu je básnikova samovražda. V Graceiných spomienkach ožívajú komplikované vzťahy medzi jednotlivými členmi šľachtickej rodiny, medzi panstvom a služobníctvom i medzi tradičnou šľachtou a novodobými zbohatlíkmi. Grace vie, čo sa stalo na brehu rivertonského jazera a aké tajomstvo si odniesla do hrobu jej matka. Len ona pozná pravdu o básnikovej samovražde, ktorá nikdy nevyšla najavo, a na prahu smrti sa rozhodne prehovoriť.

Shifting between the 1930s, the 1950s and 2011, this novel tells a story of mysteries and secrets, theatre and thievery, murder and enduring love. It is written by the author of The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours.

On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found alone after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember is that a woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished.

The morning after the Edevane's exclusive Midsummer Eve party in Cornwall in 1933, their youngest child, Theo, is nowhere to be found. After months of futile searching, the family pack up and leave their beautiful country home, never to return. Until, in 2003, a young female police officer stumbles into the lost gardens surrounding the abandoned house and determines to find out what happened.

'If you haven't read Kate Morton before, do yourself a favour' - Graham Norton, broadcaster and bestselling author of Home StretchA breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, Homecoming is an immersive, twisting epic from the bestselling Kate Morton, told with her trademark intricacy and beauty.Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most mystifying murder investigations in the history of Australia.London, 2018. Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, a phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.Seeking comfort in her past, Jess discovers a true crime book at Nora's house chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. And within its pages she finds a shocking personal connection to this notorious event - a crime that has never truly been solved.An epic novel that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love and how we protect the lies we tell.Readers love Homecoming by Kate Morton . . .'Will leave you glued to the very last page''Plenty of turns to keep you guessing''Heartbreaking, beautifully written and superbly constructed'

A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WWII. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn?t been the same since her fiancé jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother?s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ?the distant hours? of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.

My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river. Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

The Parthenon in Athens is the most famous Greek temple in the world and an icon of Ancient Greek art. It was built to house a colossal statue of the goddess Athena and the temple itself was decorated with sculptures and reliefs of the most magnificent quality. This book explores in detail these lovely carvings, with the aid of new detailed digital photography. Who are the people, animals, and gods and goddesses shown on the frieze and what are they doing? Why were they shown on a temple? How were the sculptures made, and how did the carvers give such an amazing illusion of ranks of horsemen, chariots and people in carvings only a few centimetres deep?

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure… One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined. Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as an author. Theo’s case has never been solved, though Alice still harbors a suspicion as to the culprit. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate—now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone...yet more present than ever.

An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor. "An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery."--Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Lake House Four sisters. A house with a past. One secret summer. When fifteen-year-old Margot Wilde and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the arrival of two handsome neighbors divides the sisters' loyalties, Margot is drawn into the life Audrey left behind and the mystery of her vanishing. Fifty years later, Jessie is desperate to move her family out of their London home, and gorgeous Applecote Manor seems like the perfect solution. But once there, Jessie finds herself increasingly isolated, at odds with her fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, and haunted by the strange rumors that surround the manor. Rich with heat and angst, in The Wildling Sisters the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, taking readers on a breathless journey into the darkest secrets of the human heart.

Zwei Schwestern, ein geheimes Spiel und eine verbotene Liebe Kurz vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs kommt Grace Bradley als Dienstbotin nach Riverton Manor. Selbst noch nicht erwachsen, bewundert sie die Hartford-Mädchen Hannah und Emmeline, die mit ihrer unbeschwerten Fröhlichkeit für Leben auf dem Anwesen sorgen. Doch die Begegnung mit dem jungen Dichter Lord Robert Hunter wird Hannah und Emmeline für immer verändern. Als einzige Vertraute versucht Grace die beiden Schwestern vor Unheil zu bewahren – vergeblich … Mehr als 75 Jahre bewahrt Grace das Geheimnis, bis sie endlich die Wahrheit über jene Tage preisgibt.

In the heatwave of 1959, four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to relive their memories of hazy Cotswolds summers. They find their uncle and aunt still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. An undercurrent of dread runs through the house. Why did Audrey vanish? Who is keeping her fate secret? As the sisters are lured into the mystery of their missing cousin, the stifling summer takes a shocking, deadly turn. One which will leave blood on their hands, and put another girl in danger decades later . . .

"Все началось с затерянного письма, которое через 51 год нашло адресата. Эдит Берчилл никогда еще не видела свою мать такой взволнованной, как в тот момент, когда она вскрыла конверт и прочитала послание из прошлого. Так девушка узнает о замке Майлдерхерст, в котором жили три сестры, приютившие ее мать, тогда еще совсем девочку, во время эвакуации. Однако мать не хочет рассказывать о своей жизни в замке, и Эдит чувствует, что с этим связана какая-то тайна. Спустя какое-то время Эдит по воле случая попадает в деревню Майлдерхерст, где в книжном магазине видит книгу, которую обожает с детства. Автор этой книги, писатель Раймонд Блайт, когда-то жил в этом замке. А три его дочери — те самые три сестры! — по-прежнему живут там. Эдит понимает, что судьба предоставляет ей возможность узнать секреты, которые скрывает старый замок, и правду о том, что произошло в «далекие часы» прошлого..." --

Une enfant abandonnée... Sur un bateau en partance pour l'Australie, une petite fille de 4 ans se cacher, terrorisée. Elle ne doit pas parler, pas bouger. Elle attend la conteuse, une femme mystérieuse qui lui a assuré qu'elle reviendrait. Mais le navire lève l'encre et la conteuse n'est pas revenue... Un terrible secret... La nuit de son vingt-et-unième anniversaire, une bouleversante révélation change la vie de Nell à jamais. Dans années plus tard, elle part en Angleterre, à la recherche de ses origines... Un étrange héritage... A la mort de Nell, sa grand-mère, Cassandra hérite d'un cottage en Cornouaille dont le jardin secret pourrait bien apporter les réponses au mystère d'une petite fille abandonnée...

Imenie Riverton, Anglija, 1924 god. Izvestnyj poet pokonchil s soboj vo vremja vecherinki v chest letnego solntsestojanija. Svideteljami byli lish dve obajatelnaja i zhizneradostnaja Emmelin i krasivaja, umnaja, strastnaja Khanna. Odna, po slukham, byla ego nevestoj, drugaja — ljubovnitsej. S tekh por sestry ne razgovarivali drug s drugom. Chto zhe proizoshlo na samom dele? Pravdu znala lish gornichnaja Grejs Rivz, kotoraja vsju zhizn A pytalas zabyt sobytija toj nochi.No semdesjat let spustja, kogda kinorezhisser iz Gollivuda reshila snjat film o proizoshedshem, davnie vospominanija probudilis i sekrety proshlogo stali otkryvatsja...