The House at Riverton

De: Kate Morton

Narrado por: Emilia Fox

Summer 1924: on the night of a glittering society party by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses are sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, and they 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. Set as the Edwardian summer finally surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a multi-million-copy bestselling novel and one of the most successful debuts of all time.

©2006 Kate Morton (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Combines a rich historical setting with a powerful emotional drama – and a gripping mystery." (The Australian Women's Weekly)

"An extraordinary debut." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"A rollicking good yarn of the sort you might devour in a single weekend." (Vogue)

The house of Riverton

This was quite the interesting read it took me awhile to get into it.
Maybe I was just distracted

Attention to historical details

I enjoy the attention to historical detail Grace lives a long life of secrets and promises

Downton Abbey, extended episode

This book was not at all what I was expecting but as it resembled a very long episode at Downton (which I adore), I stuck with it. Grace and Hannah are very similar to Anna and Lady Mary (the narrator sounds almost identical to Mary when speaking Hannah's parts) and overall, with that as comparison, this made for an enjoyable listen. It's a rather undeveloped plot all on its own, though. The gothic mystery I was expecting was neither gothic nor mystery.

Stunning story and narration

Phenomenal experience listening to this novel by Kate Morton! Her characters are written with such depth. They are complicated, flawed, real, and compelling. Fell in love with Grace the protagonist and sisters Hannah and Emmeline. The male characters were mostly doomed by being in the company of female power and grit. Nobody else writes like Kate Morton.

A compilation of tropes and borrowed scenes

Maybe I didn’t get the author’s intentions but the lack of original story and characters rendered the drama and it’s inhabitants two dimensional and unsympathetic.

Average

Didn’t like the narrator. Story is typical and long. Don’t understand the great reviews. Guessed the ending …..

House at Riverton

Great story, lots of history & detail. Love Kate Morton’s book. Emilia Fox a fantastic narrator!!

Long but never boring!

All the pieces gathered and tied up in a pretty bow! A wonderful escape to a different time and place. Loved it! Thank you, Kate!

Great story

I like it all butvsonetimes i do not have tome to write a review. This is well done well tead. Historical romantic and i would love to end this teview now

Don't get it if 1910's UK does not appeal to you

this would be a great book for someone who loves this period and the stories such as upstairs downstairs . lots of twists and it mostly held my attention. But I cannot understand the relationship between servants and royal families and i can't forget that the wealthy families usually got their wealth by stealing land from ancestors of those they then hire to help take care of it. It's an excellent portrait of this but the political implications not being addressed, the girl just accepting it as her lot, at least when young, kept bothering me. she just accepts things . and the secrets she keeps i also found disturbing. the fact she mostly felt no compunction to tell others truths they deserved to know or could have explored with her (i don't want to give spoilers but definitely a few jumped out at me. ) Morton is a great story weaver but I could not relate to the narrator and that is not her fault. I realize it was part of how she was forced to be and how she felt she gave loyalty and service but it was very odd and frustrating g to me. The plot and subplots were original and fresh but I wished for a more abridged version.