Kate Morton
Kate Morton
Kate Mortonis an international bestselling Australian author. Morton has sold more than 10 million books in 38 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The award-winning author has written five novels: The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours,The Secret Keeper, and The Lake House, which was published in October 2015...
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CountryAustralia
hands use might
Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.
listening way understood
A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.
book together were-meant-to-be
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
memories house
Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton
real blood names
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.
children home magnet
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
lying heart dark
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
expectations one-thing
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
mother might happy-smile
Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.
magic lazy rabbits
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery ...
people way shapes
... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...
moderation too-short wells
Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
acquisition allies compulsion
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
life princess differences
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.