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A trade paperback in fine condition, published by Washington Square Press (Simon & Schuster), New York. Covers are clean and square, with no creasing to the spine. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition (later printing). Originally published in Australia in 2006 as The Shifting Fog by Allen & Unwin. A New York Times bestselling debut novel by Australian author Kate Morton, set between the First World War and the 1990s: narrated by a former housemaid recalling a tragic event at an English country house in the summer of 1924, a secret she has kept for decades.
Simon & Schuster Canada first printing softcover in fine condition. Covers clean and square, with no creasing to the spine or edges. the pages are clean and bright throughout. Interior illustrated with decorative chapter headings. Simon & Schuster Canada, Toronto, April 2023. Kate Morton is an Australian-born author based in London, whose novels have sold over fourteen million copies in more than forty languages. Homecoming is her sixth novel. On Christmas Day 1959, a woman and her children are found dead at Halcyon, a grand estate in the Adelaide Hills. Sixty years later, Sydney journalist Jess Turner discovers the case is connected to her own family's secrets. Told across two timelines and two continents, this is a mystery of family, memory, and inheritance.
This first printing hardcover is unmarked. The pages are tight and clean. The book is tight, square, and unmarked, with some visible wear on the top and bottom of the dust cover, the boards are unmarked. The Lake House by Kate Morton is a mystery novel that blends elements of historical fiction, suspense, and family drama. Published in 2015, the story is set in Cornwall, England. The Lake House is praised for its intricate plot, atmospheric setting, and well-developed characters.