From the inside cover, "Edie is an only child of respectable if dull parents who, when she was growing up, did little to nurture her natural love of words or mystery. But now, a letter that should have been delivered fifty years earlier arrives for her mother and send Edie on a journey into the past. It takes her to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house in Kent, where the Blythe spinsters live and where, she discovers, her mother was billeted as a thirteen-year-old child during World War II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn't been the same since her fiance jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst. The truth of what happened in "the distant hours" of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. Morton pays homage to the classics of Gothic fiction, spinning an intricate web of mystery and suspense that will stay with the reader long after the last page."
This is Kate Morton's latest book which I picked up after having enjoyed her last book The Forgotten Garden. It is very much in the same vein as her previous The Forgotten Garden. It is a page turner and somewhat of a fun ghost story, with mostly likable characters. It only had one question I felt was unanswered. However be warned the ending will leave you surprised and feeling a bit melancholy.
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