![]() Backstory is filled in about her parents’ meeting - Eleanor and the dashing young student Anthony Edevane - and their courtship in 1911, preparations for a marvellous party being hosted at the Lake House, complete with fireworks, in the summer of 1933, and we meet Alice again as the prolific author of mystery stories in 2003. As the story unfolds and we learn more of Alice, we see her as part of a large, seemingly carefree family. ![]() A girl we later come to know as Alice Edevane is behaving strangely in a wooded area on the family’s summer estate, The Lake House, in the middle of a dark, stormy night burying some mysterious package that is clearly burdening her. The story begins in Cornwall, England, in 1933. ![]() The Lake House shouldn’t be confused with the romantic, time-shifting movie of the same name nor, once you realize it at first has some similarities with the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby, should you think it will just be a same old thing with a foregone conclusion - this book kept surprising me right up to the end. ![]() This week’s mystery is the first book I’ve read by Australian author Kate Morton and I really enjoyed it once I got used to the way it weaved back and forth between different times in the lives of the characters. ![]()
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