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The distant hours / Kate Morton.

Title
The distant hours / Kate Morton.
Author
Morton, Kate, 1976-
Publication
  • Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
  • Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
  • ℗♭2010.

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603 pages; 20 cm
Summary
FICTION & RELATED ITEMS. 'The suspense will have you turning the pages long into the night.' - Good Reading, 4 stars..Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long-lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret...Evacuated from London as a thirteen-year-old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 children's classic The True History of the Mud Man. In the grand and glorious Milderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also, ultimately, the dangers...
Subject
  • Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  • Family secrets > Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians > Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Kent
  • Fiction & related items
  • Australian
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction
  • Australian fiction
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  • Record machine-generated from publisher information.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9781760292959
OCLC
1102320616
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library