Sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane's infant brother Theo disappears one night during a party with hundreds of guests at her family's English estate. Years later, as a successful author, Alice still harbors a suspicion as to how her brother disappeared. Meanwhile, while out walking at her grandfather's house in Cornwall, London detective Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon the old Edevane estate, now abandoned. With her curiosity sparked, a chain of events transpires that brings her and Alice together and reveals the shocking truth behind the mystery that happened so long ago.
year: 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: missing persons, fiction, novelists, secrecy, suspense fiction, english, women authors, family life, kidnapping, police, london (england), suspense fiction, mystery fiction, london (england), fiction, suspense fiction, mystery fiction
Editions
Morton, Kate
Atria Books (2015)
Sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane's infant brother Theo disappears one night during a party with hundreds of guests at her family's English estate. Years later, as a successful author, Alice still harbors a suspicion as to how her brother disappeared. Meanwhile, while out walking at her grandfather's house in Cornwall, London detective Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon the old Edevane estate, now abandoned. With her curiosity sparked, a chain of events transpires that brings her and Alice together and reveals the shocking truth behind the mystery that happened so long ago.
Schools: 0
Morton, Kate
During Eleanor and Anthony Edevane's 1933 Midsummer Eve party, their daughter, Alice, a budding writer, falls in love for the first time. However, the night is fated to be remembered in tragedy as Alice's infant brother, Theo, is kidnapped from his crib. The Edevane family abandons the country house, never to return. Seventy years later, Detective Constable Sadie Sparrow discovers the overgrown house, and seeks out the now-elderly and famous Alice for answers and the uncovering of old secrets.
Schools: 1