The Lake House : A Heart-wrenching and Atmospheric Mystery

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Atmospheric mystery with a tragic family history.

The Lake House could be a good read for those who enjoy sophisticated suspenseful novels with complex and mysterious family secrets. The book features vivid writing, evocative descriptions, and well-developed characters. The story weaves between the past and the present to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a baby boy and the impact it had on the Edevane family. Overall, it's a heart-wrenching tale that will keep you guessing until the final pages.

  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2015)
  • Woman & Home Reader's Choice Award for Best Historical Thriller (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Lake House : A Heart-wrenching and Atmospheric Mystery

Regular price $11.15
Unit price
per
ISBN: 9781447200864
Authors: Kate Morton
Publisher: Pan Books
Date of Publication: 2016-05-19
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Mystery Thriller, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 4.07
(rated by 118353 readers)

Description

An abandoned house...June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. 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.A missing child...Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Detective Sadie Sparrow retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall. Once there, she stumbles upon an abandoned house, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.An unsolved mystery...Meanwhile, in her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape...
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Atmospheric mystery with a tragic family history.

The Lake House could be a good read for those who enjoy sophisticated suspenseful novels with complex and mysterious family secrets. The book features vivid writing, evocative descriptions, and well-developed characters. The story weaves between the past and the present to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a baby boy and the impact it had on the Edevane family. Overall, it's a heart-wrenching tale that will keep you guessing until the final pages.

  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for General Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2015)
  • Woman & Home Reader's Choice Award for Best Historical Thriller (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.