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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Kate Morton
Genre : Fiction
Another of Kate Morton’s beautifully crafted and layered mysteries that spans generations, and slowly draws you into a tale of selfless love and sorrow. A four-year-old girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth. With very little to go on, Nell sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are finally assembled.
“A picture, a black-and-white sketch. The most beautiful woman Cassandra had ever seen, standing beneath a garden arch. No, not an arch, a leafy doorway, the entrance to a tunnel of trees. A maze, she thought suddenly. The strange word came into her mind fully formed. Scores of little black lines combined like magic to form the picture. The image was oddly familiar and at first she couldn’t think how that could be. Then she realized—the woman looked like someone from an olden-days fairy tale.”
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