The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

A derivative novel of Edwardian country houses that is like a blend between Upstairs, Downstairs and Rosamund Pilcher. Well-written and researched if not particularly original. Light on the romance, heavy on the female connections.

The part of the book that intrigued me the most was this description of Gothic literature in the Author's Note at the very end of the book:

I have long been interested, as a reader and a researcher, in novels, like The House at Riverton, that utilize tropes of the literary Gothic: the haunting of the present by the past; the insistence of family secrets; return of the repressed; the centrality of inheritance (material, psychological and physical); haunted houses (partiucularly haunting of a metaphorical nature); suspicion concerning new technology and changing methods; the entrapment of women (whether physical or social) and associated claustrophobia; character doubling; the unreliability of memory and the partial nature of history; mysteries and the unseen; confessional narrative; and embedded texts.

All I could think, was, 'Oh, me too! Me too!'

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