Book Review: The Lake House by Kate Morton
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The Lake House by Kate Morton opens in Cornwall, England in the year 1933. Sixteen year old Alice Edevane loves writing and is working on her first novel at her family's lakeside estate. The night of their midsummer's eve party, Alice's eleven month old brother, Theo, vanishes. Present day. London Detective Sadie Sparrow is visiting her grandfather in Cornwall and discovers an abandoned estate frozen in time. Wondering why the house was left to decay, Sparrow starts digging into the history of the estate, revealing secrets long forgotten. When another member of my book club recommended The Lake House by Kate Morton, my first thought was to ask if it had anything to do with the movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Thankfully, the two are completely unrelated. When I pulled up the book on Goodreads, I realized it had already been sitting on my "to be read" list. Not your typical thriller, I had some trouble getting into the book but forced myself to c...