Books by Kate Morton
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review 1: Read this for our book group. I didn't finish it by the time we held our meeting to discuss it, so I heard a few spoilers, but persisted with it nonetheless, and was glad I did. Things came to a satisfying conclusion. I thought it was better than The Forgotten Garden. Characteriz...
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review 1: The Forgotten Garden tells the story of three women: Cassandra, Nell, and Eliza. After Cassandra's grandmother, Nell, dies, she learns of the mystery surrounding her grandmother's origins and she begins to follow in Nell's footsteps, trying, as her grandmother did, to discover he...
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review 1: Firstly, I was really pleased that for the most part , the annoying anachronisms and sloppy historical references that slipped into Morton's previous novels seem to have been picked up before publishing in `Distant Hours` (unless of course they were never there in the first place...
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review 1: FYI, Kate Morton is my new author crush. I actually read these three books in their original editions, but I'm happy to review them together because it's Morton's storytelling genius that makes these books what they are. She takes history and combines it with genuine humanity and...
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review 1: Cassandra riceve in eredità dalla nonna Nell un cottege in Cornovaglia, e lascia l'Australia per fare luce sul passato dell'anziana e scorbutica signora che l'ha cresciuta.Nell, dopo aver scoperto di essere stata adottata, non ha potuto fare a meno di tagliare tutti i ponti, e pa...
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review 1: Oh my but she did go on. That flowery sort of writing just does my head in. Just. Say. It! I didn't hate this book, despite all the waffle, but there were times I wondered if we could speed it up. The ending was fairly disappointing, though the true history of the mud man was so ...