The Distant Hours - Kate Morton Review

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This is the third book I have read by Kate Morton and I have to say that she is definitely one of my favourite authors.

This book follows the same format that her other books (that I have read) follow. It's a historical romance mystery where half the book is memories of the past and half the book is set in the present with the protagonist trying to unravel the mystery of the past.

The reason that I love Kate Morton's books is because of the way that she writes. Reading the parts of the book that are set in the past are like trying to fight your way through fog, everything is hazy and slow going but you know that when you make it through the clearing everything will be bright and clear and the mysteries that she has weaved through her book will make sense.

Her books are extremely detailed and a lot of the chapters are descriptive and normally I would find this annoying but it just works for the stories she creates and it definitely transports you to the past.

 The Distant Hours follows Edie who witnesses her mother receiving a lost letter from the past and seeing her break down and cry. She tries to find out who the letter is from and what they said but her mother only tells her that it is from a friend of hers from when she was evacuated during the war when she was younger and spent some time a Milderhurst Castle.

Edie suddenly finds herself at Milderhurst Castle where she meets the Blythe sisters and finds that her mother's friend (the youngest of the sisters) is being looked after her sisters as she had lost her mind in 1941 when her fiancé never turned up at the Castle the night they planned to announce their enagament.

 She soon finds herself in the middle of the past trying to unravel the mysteries the Castle, her mother's past and of what exactly happened that fateful night in 1941.

I gave this book 5 stars and I will definitely be picking up another of her books very soon!

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