The Distant Hours

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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle Kent printed on its envelope Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper her twin sisters and their father Raymond. In the grand and glorious Millderhurst Castle a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing but also ultimately the dangers. Fifty years later as Edie chases the answers to her mother's riddle she too is drawn to Millderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now the three still live together the twins nursing Juniper whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Millderhurst Castle and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it... --> Genre: Literary Fiction Modern & contemporary