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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent 20s, The Shifting Fog is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.
An alternate title for this novel is The House at Riverton.
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- Rachel G
- 23-08-17
Story ok narrator not so good.
I didn't like the narrators Australian accent she tried to do upper class British & working class accents & it just didn't work so spoiled the book for me. Her story telling & pace were fine, the accent was just so wrong for such a British book.
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- sjb4121
- 19-06-14
Needs editing
What was most disappointing about Kate Morton’s story?
The first part of the story set in a large country house was interesting and kept me listening. However once the story moved to London the bordom set in and by the end I really hoped all the characters met an unpleasant painful death.
Which character – as performed by Caroline Lee – was your favourite?
Grace the maid.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The description of life below stairs pre 1914.
Any additional comments?
The most boring book I have ever listened to.
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- Sharon Frater
- 11-11-14
Slow in places
Not quite sure about this one. I enjoyed it but had it not been for a reasonably satisfactory ending I would have only given it 3 stars. It was very slow in places and I didn't quite see the the need for so much of the present time. The whole story was about a previous era. I could have done with much smaller amounts of the present day. All in all an ok listen but couldn't heartily recommend it
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- sally jayne hyde
- 11-10-21
Brilliant as ever!
Kate doesn't disappoint!I've listened to all her books and lived this one as I have all of them....The only disappointment is that I've listened to them all!!!!
Highly recommend her books.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-05-23
Wonderful romance and interesting history
I really enjoyed this reading, very interesting, lots of social history, loved the twists and turns. A very enjoyable listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-04-23
Absolutely brilliant story.
Narration by Caroline Lee, wonderful as always, brings each character to life. Didn’t want this book to end,
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- Clare
- 09-02-23
One of my favourites
I just love this book and listen to it again and again. Well written and brilliantly narrated really brings the storyline to life.
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- sealover
- 02-02-23
Good story
I enjoyed the story but I found the Australian accent incongruous for such and English story.
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- Joya
- 29-11-22
As always a wonderful story
I really enjoyed this story. It has great characters especially Grace. It is read by an Australian narrator who does a pretty good job. I do think it needs someone British as her accents are not too good. The housemaids from Essex and the Cockneys were way off. This book is called Riverton house for the British audience but I couldn’t find it on Audible. It really is a good listen just the narrator is a bit grating.
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- M3
- 19-08-21
Wonderful story.
I had read this book some years ago and hoped that the audio versions would bring the characters to life. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the very poor accents that the reader tried to perform let the characters down. Only the young upper class girl voices were suitably matched.
However, the story line is very well written.
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