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  The House at Riverton

  or, The Shifting Fog

  by Kate Morton

  The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. 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... (more)
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  The Pursuit of Love

  by Nancy Mitford

  Childhood at Alconleigh is scanty preparation for the realities of the outside world and Linda, sweetest and most aimless of the young Radletts, falls prey to a stuffy banker and a rabid communist before she finds her ideal in a Frenchman...
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  The Life of Objects

  by Susanna Moore

  An elegant, haunting new novel from the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Whiteness of Bones —set in Germany on the eve of World War II, the story of one woman's journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness. Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale: she is whisked away from her humdrum life by a mysterious countess to join the... (more)
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  The Thirteenth Tale

  by Diane Setterfield

  All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her... (more)
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  Part of the Furniture

  by Mary Wesley

  Charged with delivering a letter for the man who saved her after a London air raid, seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe ends up embraced without question by his eccentric family and loved by the estate's reclusive owner.
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  This Cold Country (Harvest Book)

  by Annabel Davis-Goff

  Known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, Annabel Davis-Goff adds the lush immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II. Only three days after Daisy Creed weds Patrick Nugent, heir of an Anglo-Irish family, he leaves for the war. Having never met her husband's family, Daisy embarks for her new home, Dunmaine, in... (more)
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  The Forgotten Garden

  by Kate Morton

  A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her — but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to... (more)
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  The Little Stranger

  by Sarah Waters

  A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. With The Little Stranger, Waters revisits the fertile setting of Britain in the 1940s -- and gives us a sinister tale of a haunted house, brimming with the rich atmosphere and psychological complexity that have become hallmarks of Waters’s work. The Little... (more)
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  Flavia de Luce: Book 1

  The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  by Alan C. Bradley

  For very-nearly-eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, the discovery of a dead snipe on the doorstep of Buckshaw, the crumbling de Luce manor, was a marvellous mystery - especially since this particular snipe had a rather rare stamp neatly impaled on its beak. Even more astonishing was the effect of the dead bird on her stamp-collector father, who appeared to be genuinely frightened. Soon Flavia discovers something even... (more)