Kate Morton The Distance Hours Book Review

Today is the start of something new so rather than talk to you about beauty or fashion I wanted to share another of my passions which is reading. I always have a book with me where ever I go, its always in my handbag. I started to notice recently a lot of friends asking what I was reading and to recommend some good books so  I thought it would be much easier if they just checked out the new 'What I'm Reading' tab here on Label V Look.

My first review is dedicated to one of my favourite and in my opinion one of the best written books I have ever read. It is Kate Morton's The Distant Hours. The back of the book sucked me before I had even read one page, it details;

"Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mothers emotional distance masks an old secret.

Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and take to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blyth family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 children's classic The true story of the Mud Man. In  the grand and glorious Milderhurst Castle, a new world opens up for Edie's mother. She discovers the joys of books and fantasy and writing, but also ultimately, the dangers.

Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mothers riddle, she, too, is drawn to Milderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe.Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiancé in 1941 plunged her into madness.

Inside the Decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stone of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it."

Even as I tell you about this book all the emotions I felt whilst reading are rushing back to me, I want to forget about writing this post and fling myself back into that book. As a reader you really are taken on a roller coaster of thought and feelings, I continuously thought I had sussed the secrets but was then thrust back off the cliff into unknowing again.

If you do one thing today you must order a copy of this book  you will find the paperback on Amazon for just £4.99. I actually own two more of Kate's books and cant wait to delve into these worlds, they are The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden.  As for The Distant Hours I am awarding this book a definite 5 star rating, this book has 676 pages and I read it all in just over four days (whilst also having to go to work).