Distant Hours

From the international bestselling author of "The House at Riverton" and"The Forgotten Garden" comes a brand new tale of love, mystery, betrayaland dark secrets...Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, butwhen a long lost letter arrives with the return address of MilderhurstCastle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that hermother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as athirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious JuniperBlythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family.Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentricSisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twinsnursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her intomadness. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother'spast. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of MilderhurstCastle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth ofwhat happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someoneto find it...