Book Review - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Moreton

This is the second of Kate's books I have read, see my review of the Distant hours. http://hufen.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/book-review-distant-hours-kate-morton.html

 

 

Once more I was gripped from the first page, I read the entire book over a weekend and most of it while sick in bed, what else are you suppose to do when confined to bed?

 

I love the way the story is told in different time era's telling the story of three people and that you bounce from one person's accounts of the drama to another, you want to keep turning the pages to find out what they knew of the story
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of  ' The house at Riverton'

1913 On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace. 1975 Now an old lady, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst Manor, which had been owned by the Mountrachet family. What has prompted Nell's journey after all these years? 2005 On Nell's death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritance. Cliff Cottage, in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets it holds -- secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is at Cliff Cottage, abandoned for years, and in its forgotten garden, that Cassandra will uncover the truth about the family and why the young Nell was abandoned all those decades before.

See:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Forgotten-Garden-ebook/dp/B003O86FBS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349690498&sr=8-1