The distant hours

Edie og mora har aldri stått nær hverandre, men Edie begynner å mistenke at moras følelsesmessige distanse skyldes en gammel hemmelighet. Under krigen blir Edies mor evakuert fra London, og hun blir sendt for å bo sammen med Blythe-familien på Milderhurst slott. Der oppdager hun gledene ved å lese bøker og ved å skrive, men til slutt også farene. Edie begynner å leite etter sannheten om moras fortid.

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