The Lake House

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He’s got a job here for life,’ she’d overheard him saying to Mr Harris, his voice reedy with the strength of his feeling. As if it weren’t enough having the famed and feted Eleanor Edevane for a mother, wasn’t it just her luck to follow an older sister who was almost as perfect?

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Mysteries, twists, family secrets, carefully placed red herrings, and unexpected revelations are now compelling traditions in Kate Morton’s novels. He didn’t seem to understand that the days of Alice sitting with him while he sketched, of bobbing downstream together in the rowing boat, of her confessing all her childish secrets as they hunted fairies were gone. Back when it first happened she’d considered confessing, and perhaps, in the beginning, she might have. They regularly trade letters, using the mailbox’s red flag to determine when the other has received their message.She patted the ground flat, slapped her hands against it, and stomped down hard with her boots until she was out of breath.

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Other filming locations include Aurora, Illinois (now the Madison Park community) and Riverside, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago that is known for its historic houses, and several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. She didn't always like them, she rarely sought their company for reasons of social fulfillment, but she did find them fascinating.He’d arrived at Loeanneth late in the summer of 1932, during that glorious dry stretch when, with all the excitement of Midsummer behind them, there’d been nothing left to do but surrender themselves to the soporific heat. While London was a lure to Deborah, Alice was never happier, never quite as much herself, as she was here; sitting on the edge of the stream, toes dangling in the slow current; lying in bed before the dawn, listening to the busy family of swifts who’d built their nest above her window; winding her way around the lake, notebook always tucked beneath her arm. It was proof there really was beauty and goodness in the world, just like the poems and platitudes said.

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The estate sat deep in a dell, surrounded by thick, briar-tangled woods, just like houses must in fairy tales. Kate tries to forget Alex, but discovering the copy of ‘Persuasion’ brings back Alex’s memory, and her mind starts spiraling again. Sadie had shrugged, puzzling over why that might be considered a bad thing, and she’d known then, with surprisingly little regret, that it wasn’t going to work out between them. But when they wake up the next morning, 11-month-old Theo, their fourth child and only son, is missing.Mother objected to Alice’s habit of caressing her pocketed book because it made her look ‘shifty, like you’re up to no good’, a description Alice had decided she didn’t mind one bit. The Super never missed a chance to trumpet his views on loyalty, hoicking up his lunch-stained trousers and giving the assembled detectives a spittle-laden blast: ‘Nothing worse than a canary, you hear? Missing babies, maternal sacrifice, and secrets, secrets, secrets—Morton offers generous clues, only to peel back deeper layers just when the truth seems close…. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. She’d written her full name – Alice Cecilia Edevane – slowly, under Mother’s watchful eye, on the pale sepia line in the frontispiece, and felt immediately that she was now a more real person than she had been before.

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One Midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace, a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined. A fallen log came at her from nowhere and Sadie leapt over it, catching the tip of her running shoe. And then she stepped towards the jetty, manuscript in hand, intoxicated by an enticing sense of herself as a girl on the precipice of a glimmering future.But even better than the page-turning suspense of the whodunit, are the vividly-drawn characters with backstories so deep and so multifaceted that you will be totally drawn into this captivating tale. Mr Llewellyn seemed unusually disappointed and it occurred to Alice that he’d been quite flat lately. The film received a nomination for Choice Liplock (between Bullock and Reeves) at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards and won.