About this title: 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. A thrilling ...
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"Sisters & Husbands is the long-awaited sequel to Connie Briscoe's first novel, Sister's & Lovers, which was published more than 10 years ago. This story about Evelyn, Charmaine, and Beverly three very close sisters, focuses on the month leading up to Beverly's wedding. In her late 30s, this is Beverly's third engagement, so everyone is watching for signs of cold feet. But Beverly is not concerned. Julian is the most wonderful man she has ever been with, considerate, caring, sexy and with a great career that he loves. However, she starts to question the entire institution of marriage and lifetime monogamy when cracks begin to show in both of sisters' marriages, especially the more than 20 year union of Evelyn and her seemingly fabulous husband Kevin. The story is filled with situations of life in the twenty-first century, balancing career and family, blending families with children from previous relationships, sharing custody, being an empty-nester, possible physical abuse, excessive materialism, and good old fashioned family gatherings with traditional food and games. It was interesting to see how three women, raised in the same home with the same basic values would handle situations differently and have such different reactions and points of view. No matter what happens however, they support each other and will fight for each other, each in her own way, aggressively by Charmaine, Evelyn the family counselor seeing both points of view, and Beverly, having never been married, looking at many things through rose-colored glasses, although standing by her sisters and doing what she can in a much calmer tone than Charmaine. Of course I'm not going to say what happens with each of the sisters' marriages, but I will tell you that it's interesting to see the choices they make and why. Sisters & Husbandsis a really great read, and I wish I had read Sisters & Lovers first to see the changes 10 years have made in the sisters and their points of view."
"Wow - what a great book!! I loved it! There are still some little things I'm confused about... what was the key with the box's signifcance at the end of the book? Did Grace ever go get it? And when Grace went to tell Hannah Emmaline had died, how come Hannah already knew? When there were strict rules that no one tell her. I listened to this book, "The Shifting Fog" version - and I thought the reader was fantastic despite she really did a kind of lousy american accent... haha.
Above all, I felt like the book made me feel like I was there with Grace. Like it pulled me into her world - all the descriptions.
I felt like the ending wasn't THAT suprising, I knew something completely different was going to happen than what everyone thought was what happened. Especially just before the end when Grace says after seeing the movie, "that's not the way it REALLY happened"
"The House at Riverton is told in the style of the Titanic - an elderly woman who once worked as a housemaid at an English estate is contacted by a filmmaker making a movie about the tragedy that took place 75 years earlier. Memories come rushing back and she decides to make an oral history on tape for her grandson.
From the beginning of the book, we know a tragedy has taken place - but not what happened. We are told who the people involved are, though we haven't been introduced to them yet. The rest of the book tells the story, from the beginning of Grace's service at Riverton to the night of the tragedy, with the author interspersing the present with the past.
I enjoyed the story very much, but I did not enjoy as much the way in which it was told. The way some of the characters were introduced as players in the tragedy, but we didn't meet them until halfway through the book was irritating. The ominous foreshadowing from the beginning until the final chapter was annoying. I think a book can work if the tragedy is revealed first and then the story of the tragedy is unfolded, but this book sort of went halfway with that idea. It tried to hard to keep the mystery, but exposed too much from the beginning for that to work."
"Ninety-eight Grace Bradley knows the truth behind the incident at Riverton Manor in the 1920s. The incident--the purported suicide of poet Robbie Hunter--also caused two sisters to stop speaking to each other and Grace herself to leave her employ at Riverton shortly thereafter. Now Grace has been approached by Ursula, a woman with a desire to make a film of the events and is asking Grace for her input. With so many decades having passed since that night Grace is the only surviving person and, thus, the only one who can relate what truly occurred.
Grace resolves to make a tape of the events for her long-absent grandson Marcus. Like her mother, Grace worked for a number of years as a serving maid for Lord and Lady Ashbury at Riverton. The story reveals much about the rigid social class structure of the time and the destruction wreaked in the lives of members across all the classes by World War I.
The longer Grace works at Riverton, the more she sees the complications underlying the Ashbury family ties and dynamics. But Grace spends most of her time at Riverton absorbed by and feeling connected to the lives of three of Lord and Lady Ashbury's grandchildren--David, Hannah, and Emmeline (and most particularly connected to Hannah). David is the one who first brings Robbie Hunter into all of their lives by bringing him home from Eton for Christmas.
The story covers a number of years--the events surrounding World War I and numerous births, deaths, friendships, and secrets. It jumps back and forth between the ninety-eight year old Grace's present interactions and her retelling of her past to her grandson through the tapes.
Some of the "twists" are foreshadowed and are easy to predict, but it is still a pleasure to watch the details work themselves out through the well-written story. Fans of stories full of secrets, atmosphere, and a gothic feel such as in Rebecca or The Thirteenth Tale will find much to love in The House at Riverton."
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