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The distant hours / Kate Morton.
Author
Morton, Kate, 1976-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
℗♭2010.
Description
603 pages ; 20 cm
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Mothers and daughters
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Fiction
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Family secrets
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Fiction
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World War, 1939-1945
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Evacuation of civilians
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Fiction
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World War, 1939-1945
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England
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Kent
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Summary note
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...
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
ISBN
9781760292959
OCLC
1102320616
RCP
H - S
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