![]() ![]() Unluckily, she has no desire to see the case reopened. ![]() Luckily for Sadie, Alice (now an octogenarian mystery author) is still alive and living in London. She’s intrigued and learns about how Theo’s disappearance went cold, and she becomes obsessed with solving the case. She’s on holiday in Cornwall, licking her wounds, when she stumbles upon the Edevane lake house in the woods–now a crumbling, decaying ruin. Sadie enters into the story in 2003 she’s on leave from her job after fouling up a child abandonment case. We learn about the Edevane family and how they survived financial decay and WWI from Eleanor as we watch her as a young woman in the early 20th century. We get each woman’s POV (third person) as the narrative jumps around in time–Alice offers the perspective of a sixteen-year-old as she attends the family party in 1933. The book centers around three women: Alice Edevane, Theo’s older sister Eleanor Edevane, Theo and Alice’s mother and Sadie Sparrow, a policewoman. ![]() ![]() The Edevanes were a prominent family in England, and they were hosting their annual Midsummer’s Night party at their summer home in Cornwall the night he vanished from his nursery. The mystery that binds this book together involves the disappearance of an eleven-month-old baby, Theo Edevane, in 1933. The Lake House by Kate Morton is part historical fiction, part gothic mystery and part family saga–which means it’s 100% Elyse-bait. Genre: Historical: European, Literary Fiction ![]()
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