The House at Riverton: A Novel

Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet�s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace�s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge � something history has forgotten but Grace never could.