Second sister Saffy schemes to escape the castle for London. Much to the chagrin of his eldest daughter Percy, Raymond has evinced an intention to disinherit his daughters. Raymond, demented and delusional, has secluded himself in his tower room. She finds true kinship with the three daughters of Raymond Blythe, famed author of a children’s classic entitled The True History of the Mud Man. Her teacher, Thomas Cavill, encourages her to excel in her studies. The evacuation proves to be an unexpected blessing for Meredith, a shy, bookish girl who’s misunderstood by her working-class family. From here the story ricochets between the war years and the early 1990s. The letter, it turns out, is from Juniper, one of the three Blythe sisters who inhabit Milderhurst Castle, where Meredith, as a child during World War II, was evacuated to escape the Blitz. A letter points the way to a castle in Kent, which harbors decades of grim secrets, in Morton’s latest ( The House at Riverton, 2008, etc.).Įdie, a young woman underemployed by a London small press, is puzzled when her normally placid mother Meredith receives a long-delayed letter and bursts into tears.
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