02075cam a2200397 4500 517222452 TxAuBib 090429s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009290803 9781416550532 pbk. 1416550534 pbk. (OCoLC)16602 TxAuBib Morton, Kate, 1976- Shifting fog. The house at Riverton : a novel / Kate Morton. 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2009. viii, 473 p. ; 21 cm. WSP readers club. ""Originally published in Australia in 2006 as The Shifting Fog by Allen & Unwin""--T.p. verso. Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description. Women household employees Fiction. Reminiscing in old age Fiction. Upper class families Fiction. Poets Crimes against Fiction. Household employees Fiction. Old age Fiction. Upper class Fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs Fiction. England Fiction. Mystery fiction. WSP readers club. TXHSP