The Lake House

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A tangle of star jasmine spilled across the path and Alice knelt to pluck a sprig, holding it beneath her nose and breathing in the scent of captured sunshine. Forgetting the dragonfly, she crossed the path at a clip and made her furtive way around the lake, avoiding the lawn and the band of groundsmen sweeping near the elaborate fireworks contraption, keeping to the shadows until she reached the Sunken Garden. Hired musicians slid gilt chairs across the temporary bandstand, and as the caterers’ vans took turns stirring dust on the driveway, the half-assembled marquee ballooned in the summer breeze. She’d spent the morning avoiding her mother, waiting until Mr Harris took his lunch break so she could catch Ben alone. Kate tries to forget Alex, but discovering the copy of ‘Persuasion’ brings back Alex’s memory, and her mind starts spiraling again.

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She could mark the start of her troubles from the evening, six weeks ago, when she’d trodden on that bloody letter lying on the doormat of her London flat.

There was a glorious sacrilege in acknowledging the fact of Eleanor Edevane’s underwear and Alice had to clamp her lips to keep from laughing.

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Do you feel that the author was successful in moving the reader between the historical and more contemporary times? At first it had just been occasional lapses in concentration, little mistakes that were easy enough to cover, but then the Bailey case had come along, that little motherless girl, and kapow! Missing babies, maternal sacrifice, and secrets, secrets, secrets—Morton offers generous clues, only to peel back deeper layers just when the truth seems close…. That moment when the sun shifts by a degree and a spider's web, previously concealed, begins to shine like fine-spun silver.While oscillating between the past and future, the film reflects upon the timelessness of the present. From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours comes an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heart-stopping suspense and uncovered secrets.

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A lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies, this latest novel from a masterful storyteller is an enthralling, thoroughly satisfying read.He wasn’t one of those pompous men who bassooned on about himself and his achievements as if a girl were just a pretty-enough face between a pair of willing ears. While leaving for Madison on a train, Kate catches a glimpse of Alex, who runs by the train to give Kate back her copy of Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion. He purchases Loeanneth and even allows Constance to live there with them, though this doesn’t change the old lady at all; she remains cantankerous and embittered. As Kate tells Alex earlier in the story, he died in the accident, while she created a story around him to cope with the trauma.

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She didn’t like her one bit, but then one tended not to develop fond feelings for people with despotic dispositions. Alice’s mother, Eleanor Edevane (née deShiel), falls in love with Anthony Edevane when she is young.

When it was published he could have his very own first edition, she’d even sign it for him, right beneath the dedication. Jurek cited the composer's "use of space in allowing a cello to unravel in the lyric line" on "Pawprints" and "Il Mare" as a "beautiful device for revelation". He also expressed appreciation for the film's aesthetic, commenting that it was "elegant without being terribly showy, with a connoisseur's eye for Chicago's architectural glories".