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Fiercombe Manor by Kate
Riordan
In this haunting and richly imagined dual-narrative tale,
two women of very different eras are united by the secrets hidden within the
walls of an English manor house.
In 1933, naive twenty-two year-old
Alice—pregnant and unmarried—is in disgrace. Her mother banishes her from London
to secluded Fiercombe Manor in rural Gloucestershire, where she can hide under
the watchful eye of her mother's old friend, the housekeeper Mrs. Jelphs. The
manor's owners, the Stantons, live abroad, and with her cover story of a
recently-deceased husband Alice can have her baby there before giving it up for
adoption and returning home. But as Alice endures the long, hot summer at
Fiercombe awaiting the baby's birth, she senses that something is amiss with the
house and its absentee owners.
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