The Shifting Fog or The House at Riverton by Kate Morton.
I've just finished The Shifting Fog, or The House at Riverton which seems to be its title for the US. I really enjoyed it. An old woman looks back to her employment as a servant to a wealthy English family in post World War I and then II.
One evening at a Riverton party poet RS Hunter shoots himself in the head. The only two witnesses are sisters Hannah and Emmeline who never speak to eachother again. Grace, Hannah's lady's maid recounts the little known story of how that fatal night came about and uncovers a dark secret kept hidden for over 50 years.
It's one of those light holiday reads full of dark secrets lurking beneath the facade of a proper English family. It reminded me a lot of the movie Gosford Park because that was also told from the perspective of servants.
I didn't get much reading done this month considering I'm on holidays, other than The Shifting Fog I finished Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood and Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg. I spent a lot of time trying to decide what I felt like reading and starting things only to put them down again.
I'm in the mood for some more light historical fiction so I might keep my eye out for something like that to start next.
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