The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

When Edie Burchill’s mother receives a letter lost for fifty years, there are resounding repercussions. During WWII, the highly impressionable 13-year-old had been sent to live in the countryside during the bombing of London. She was welcomed into the eclectic lifestyle of Middlehurst Castle, home of a famously reclusive author and his three daughters. When Edie tracks down the origin of the letter, she finds the three spinster sisters living in a dangerously deteriorating mansion, still keeping secrets from each other and the world curious about their father’s “lost” book. The gothic-styled novel popularized in the 1960s by Daphne du Maurier, Phyllis Whitney and Mary Stewart was an appealing blend of mystery and romance. Morton’s novel adds a satisfying complexity and depth of character to a story steeped in gothic atmosphere.

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