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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Until a phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney.

England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident 10 years ago, feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her.

Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented 14-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure.... One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items.

Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a 13-year-old girl, Edie’s mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family.

As a 13-year-old World War Two evacuee, Edie’s mother was chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. In the grand and glorious Milderhurst Castle, a new world opened up for Edie’s mother. She discovered the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also, ultimately, their dangers. Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mother’s riddle, she too is drawn to Milderhurst Castle and the eccentric Blythe sisters. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother’s past.

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.

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.

UN’ANTICA DIMORA NEL SUD DELL’AUSTRALIA. UN TERRIBILE OMICIDIO RIMASTO IRRISOLTO. UNA DONNA IN CERCA DI RISPOSTE. Adelaide Hills, Vigilia di Natale 1959. Non si registra un’estate così calda da decenni. Strizzando gli occhi verso il sole, tutti si chiedono quando quel caldo torrido li lascerà in pace. È il tramonto della Vigilia di Natale, quando Percy Summer, il fattorino del paese, si avventura tra le colline e fa una scoperta agghiacciante. Nei pressi di una sontuosa tenuta di campagna, una donna e i suoi bambini si sono appisolati dopo un picnic.

Forfatteren til "Den glemte have" er tilbage med en stor roman om familiehemmeligheder, der elegant bevæger sig frem og tilbage mellem tiden omkring 2. verdenskrig, starten af 1960'erne og nutiden. På en varm sommerdag i begyndelsen af 1960'erne har den 16-årige Laurel gemt sig fra familien og drømmer om fremtiden, der ligger og venter på hende. Men drømmerierne får en brat afslutning, da Laurel oppe fra sit skjul bliver vidne til en alvorlig forbrydelse.

Edie og hendes mor har aldrig haft et nært forhold, men da et gammelt brev fra Milderhurst Castle pludselig dukker op, får Edie en mistanke om, at forklaringen på moderens følelsesmæssige kulde måske har sin rod der. Hun beslutter sig for at trodse moderens ønske og selv besøge slottet. Efterhånden som Edie får optrevlet historien om, hvordan hendes mor, der som ung pige var evakueret til slottet under krigen, hører hun også en fjern hvisken fra slottets mure om andre gamle hemmeligheder, som har været begravet alt for længe.

En lille fortabt pige. En frygtelig hemmelighed. En mystisk arv. I 1913 dukker en lille pige op alene på kajen i Australien. 90 år senere sætter hendes barnebarn sig for at opklare historien om den lille pige. Glæd dig til denne store, dejlige kvinderoman, som er Kate Mortons anden roman. Hun debuterede med Huset ved Riverton i 2006. De to romaner har gjort hende til en af de mest populære kvindeforfattere i England og USA og er solgt til udgivelse i 36 lande.

Forfatteren til "Den glemte have" er tilbage med en stor roman om familiehemmeligheder, der elegant bevæger sig frem og tilbage mellem tiden omkring 2. verdenskrig, starten af 1960'erne og nutiden. På en varm sommerdag i begyndelsen af 1960'erne har den 16-årige Laurel gemt sig fra familien og drømmer om fremtiden, der ligger og venter på hende. Men drømmerierne får en brat afslutning, da Laurel oppe fra sit skjul bliver vidne til en alvorlig forbrydelse.

Edie og hendes mor har aldrig haft et nært forhold, men da et gammelt brev fra Milderhurst Castle pludselig dukker op, får Edie en mistanke om, at forklaringen på moderens følelsesmæssige kulde måske har sin rod der. Hun beslutter sig for at trodse moderens ønske og selv besøge slottet. Efterhånden som Edie får optrevlet historien om, hvordan hendes mor, der som ung pige var evakueret til slottet under krigen, hører hun også en fjern hvisken fra slottets mure om andre gamle hemmeligheder, som har været begravet alt for længe.

Was geschah vor 150 Jahren im Haus am Fluss? Birchwood Manor 1862: Der talentierte Edward Radcliffe lädt Künstlerfreunde in sein Landhaus an der Themse ein. Doch der verheißungsvolle Sommer endet in einer Tragödie - eine Frau verschwindet, eine andere stirbt, und Radcliffes Leben ist ruiniert. Hundertfünfzig Jahre später entdeckt Elodie Winslow, eine junge Archivarin aus London, die Sepiafotografie einer atemberaubend schönen Frau und die Zeichnung eines Hauses mit zwei Giebeln an einem Fluss. Warum kommt Elodie das Haus so bekannt vor?

Eine unheilvolle Lüge, eine verbotene Sehnsucht, ein geheimes Verbrechen. England, Greenacres Farm 1961: Während einer Familienfeier am Flussufer beobachtet die junge Laurel, wie ein Fremder das Grundstück betritt und ihre Mutter aufsucht. Kurz darauf ist der idyllische Frieden des Ortes jäh zerstört. Erst fünfzig Jahre später gesteht sich Laurel beim Anblick eines alten Fotos ein, dass sie damals Zeugin eines Verbrechens wurde. Doch was genau geschah an jenem lang zurückliegenden Sommertag?

Cornwall 1933: Die sechzehnjährige Alice Edevane fiebert dem Mittsommernachtsfest auf dem herrschaftlichen Landgut ihrer Familie entgegen - und ahnt nichts von dem Unglück, das sich ereignen wird. Siebzig Jahre später stößt Sadie auf das alte, verfallene Haus am See. Als sie den Spuren des in jener Nacht scheinbar verschwundenen Jungen nachgeht, gerät sie tief in die Vergangenheit der Familie Edevane, zu einer verbotenen Liebe und tiefer Schuld.

Ein geheimnisvoller Brief, ein verfallenes Schloss, eine unerfüllte Liebe. Es beginnt mit einem verloren geglaubten Brief. Ein halbes Jahrhundert hat er darauf gewartet, gelesen zu werden. Die Suche nach dem Absender führt die junge Edie nach Millderhurst Castle, wo seit Jahrzehnten die exzentrischen Blythe-Schwestern leben. Als Edie das verfallene Schloss betritt, beginnt sie zu ahnen, dass hinter den alten Mauern der Schlüssel zur rätselhaften Vergangenheit ihrer Mutter liegt.

Die junge Australierin Cassandra erbt von ihrer Großmutter Nell ein verlassenes Cottage in der englischen Grafschaft Cornwall...