Kate Morton

On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman had promised to look after her but has disappeared without a trace. On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever.

In the summer of 1924 a young poet shot himself at an English country house party. In 1999, 98-year-old Grace Bradley, onetime housemaid at Riverton, is visited by a director making a film about the poet's suicide. Gradually Grace remembers the truth about that fateful night. Richard & Judy Bookclub