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.
Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent
20s, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling
love story.
An alternate title for this novel is The Shifting Fog.