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Work detailsThe Distant Hours by Kate Morton (2010)
 Readermom68 | Apr 3, 2013 |  I can't help thinking this book could have used a thorough editing. I liked it but not as much as I liked The Forgotten Garden. (  ) Manyra | Apr 3, 2013 | I wasn't sure what I was going to think. In the end I did like it but not a whole lot. I found the way the book was written to be very irritating hence the two stars. I might read something else by her but not for quite awhile. (  ) matamgirl | Apr 3, 2013 | I am a fan of Kate Morton, her storytelling is mature and well thought out. The Distant Hours is a very slow moving novel, but it doesn't read like it at all. Readers don't get answers until the last 50 pages but the way she tells the story leaves you okay with waiting to get the answers. (  )1  Booksandlaundry | Mar 31, 2013 | I also really enjoyed this Kate Morton book. An interesting storyline and colorful characters. again no loose ends by the finish of the book I felt like the book was finished. A very good read. ( )1 daystarzbooks | Jan 22, 2013 |
 Milderhurst Castle is as enchanting to the reader as it is to Edie and her mother but the cast is rarely quite as absorbing because Meredith, Juniper and Thomas are sketchily drawn.
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Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.… (more)
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I liked this book, but it could have been at least 100 pages shorter. I believe the author felt the lengthy descriptions and such were necessary to create the mood of the novel but more than once it just felt excessive.
It was a good 'throw back' novel, reminiscent of Rebecca. I thought the bones of the story were good and it kept me guessing right to the end. (