I’m interested to hear what you think when you do read it! Have you read her other stuff?

Hahahaha, and I would say it in a hushed but portentous voice. Secrets in books = wondrous.

I think The Distant Hours is the one I still haven’t read. I’ll read it sometime when I’m on vacation — I think Kate Morton is best for when you’re on a vacation.

Yeah, I think the same. Oh to be sixteen again!

(Not really. You couldn’t pay me.)

The mother…isn’t perfect. That’s all I’ll say, and I also respect your feelings about The House at Riverton.

THEY DO NOT. I would never do that. I know that while I do not personally care about spoilers, other people do. The mother kills someone in like the first forty pages. And that’s fair game, right?

(That “right?” = not rhetorical. I really don’t know what counts as spoilers and not, on account of my personal life choice to spoil everything for myself ASAP.)

She’s a fun read! I think of her (this is awful) as a low-budget Maggie O’Farrell. So if you like Maggie O’Farrell I bet you’ll like her.

I can understand why. She has some writing tics that are annoying, but I will say that when you’re in the mood for this kind of thing she completely hits the spot. Like a Coke-strawberry-swirl Icee.

Yeah, I always prefer bits set in the London Blitz to almost anything else. Everyone was so stiff-upper-lippy and brave and good!

I’m doing it on purpose to get to you. So that you’ll know I’m always watching.