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The Distant Hours
Unknown author · historical fiction
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a letter arrives one Sunday, marked with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected.
About this historical novel
The Distant Hours by Unknown author is historical fiction rooted in Global / multiple. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a letter arrives one Sunday, marked with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected.
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Plot summary
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a letter arrives one Sunday, marked with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected.
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Global / multiple
Themes
- mothers and daughters, fiction
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction
- england, fiction
- fiction, family life
- mothers and daughters
- fiction
- family secrets
- world war, 1939-1945
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open-library