The House at Riverton

This is the second book by Kate Morton that I have read this year, after picking up The Forgotten Garden a couple of months ago.

I got this book from the CBC reads booksale, a pretty great used book sale held in the spring each year. It is about a very elderly lady revisiting her early life as a maid at a manor house during WWI and the 1920s, arguably the period in which we saw the changeover into the modern era.

After reading Kate Morton's other book earlier this year, I was excited to get to this one. It didn't disappoint - it had the same atmospheric locations, well written characters and an intriguing plot that unraveled so well that I hadn't guessed the ending at all (not that I am Sherlock, but still).

I can't help but think her books would make great period dramas, similar to something like Gosford Park.

Anyway, this gets 4.5 shell-shocked infantrymen out of 5.