But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.

She is also the author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter and Homecoming.The beguiling fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature and lives now with her family in London and Australia.

Kate Morton was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. She had found there were very few genuinely dull people the trick was to ask them the right questions. Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one’s way through.Ī person never forgets the landscape of their childhood. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone…yet more present than ever.Ī lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies from a masterful storyteller, The Lake House is an enthralling, thoroughly satisfying read. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate-now crumbling and covered with vines. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. He is never found, and the family is torn apart, the house abandoned.ĭecades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as a novelist. One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories.

Audiobook Length: 21 hours and 24 minutes

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