As a lark, she concocts a hypothetical scenario which might have prompted Ben to kidnap Theo, her baby brother. Alice, 16, is a budding mystery writer (whose future fame will equal Agatha Christie’s), but in 1933 she’s nursing a teenage crush on Ben, an impecunious gardener. Meanwhile, their children, Deborah, Alice and Clemmie, frolic on the grounds, oblivious to their parents’ difficulties. But when Anthony goes to war, he returns shell-shocked and prone to unpredictable outbursts. The story ricochets among 2003, 1911, and 1933 as we learn that Eleanor deShiel, who inspired a children’s book reminiscent of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, became the chatelaine of Loeanneth thanks to a Downton Abbey– esque plot twist in which, due to the Titanic disaster, new husband Anthony Edevane inherits enough money to reclaim her birthright from creditors. She retreats to her grandfather’s house in Cornwall, and there, while jogging, she happens upon the ruin of what locals inform her is Loeanneth, the ancestral lakeside manse of the deShiel family. In 2003, Sadie is put on administrative leave from her post with the London police force for getting too involved in a child-abandonment case. A suspected kidnapping, a once-proud manor house, and a disgraced police officer all figure in Morton’s latest multigenerational Cornish saga.
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The goddesses of the Olymp have had enough of the cruelty against and marginalisation of women that they had to witness throughout history. My god(desse)s! This is a thing of utter beauty! David Braddock is the central character of this intriguing, gripping story. That is why John Dolan’s Everyone Burns is so refreshing. Characters so tragically one dimensional that they might as well be oil paintings. What really burns me is when I see endless bookshelves containing the stereotypical chiselled, shiny, size zero beauties. I read it, I loved it and here is my take on it. That’s why he does such a great job with David Braddock, his P.I. MC in Everyone Burns. I think dear John John was a detective in another life. Sure, he has a dungeon where he chains preferred guest to a rack(he since lost the electric chair) and interrogates them, using the torture device to get his information. Though he has never graced this ol shed with his infectious charisma, I still loves ’em. 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