Kate Morton has 15 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 1,003 ratings. The most-rated is The Clockmaker's Daughter.
The Clockmaker's Daughter
Summary
Prepare to lose yourself in the enchanting new novel from Kate Morton. My father called me Birdie; he said I was his little bird. Others knew me as his child, the clockmaker’s daughter. Edward called me his muse, his destiny. I am remembered as a thief, an imposter, a girl who rose above her station, who was not chaste. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river. Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets? Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through it like a river is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker’s daughter.
©2018 Kate Morton (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
A Warning
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In time for the 2020 presidential election, Anonymous returns to expand on their "must read" (Time), number-one best-selling behind-the-scenes "scathing portrait" (USA Today) of the Trump presidency with new words of warning for Americans everywhere. On September 5, 2018, The New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration", the author provided eyewitness insight into White House chaos, administration instability, and the people working to keep Donald Trump's reckless impulses in check. With the 2020 election on the horizon, Anonymous is speaking out once again. In this book, the original author pulls back the curtain even further, offering a first-of-its-kind look at the president and his record - a must-listen before Election Day. It will surprise and challenge both Democrats and Republicans, motivate them to consider how we judge our nation's leaders, and illuminate the consequences of re-electing a commander in chief unfit for the role. This book is a sobering assessment of the man in the Oval Office and a warning about something even more important - who we are as a people.
©2019 Anonymous (P)2019 Twelve
The Lake House
Summary
Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented 14-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure.... One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined, leaving their estate as empty as their broken hearts. Nearly 60 years later, having enjoyed a long, successful career as an author, Alice is now 80 years old and living in London. Theo’s case has never been solved, though Alice still harbours a suspicion as to the culprit. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate - now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone... yet more present than ever. A lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies, this latest novel from a masterful storyteller is spellbinding and satisfying.
©2015 Kate Morton (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
The Forgotten Garden
Summary
A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, a maze, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery - The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric, and a compulsive listen about the past, ghosts, family, and memories from best-selling author Kate Morton. Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident 10 years ago, feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace Rutherford - the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early 20th century - as well as a cliff-top cottage on the other side of the world, Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell, on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.
©2008 Kate Morton (P)2008 Bolinda Publishing
The Distant Hours
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a 13-year-old girl, Edie’s mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst 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 stones 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.
©2010 Kate Morton (P)2010 Kate Morton
The Secret Keeper
Summary
England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime. Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue. The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting, and deception told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.
©2012 Kate Morton (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
Summary
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent 20s, The Shifting Fog is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story. An alternate title for this novel is The House at Riverton.
©2006 Kate Morton (P)2006 Kate Morton
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La hija del relojero [The Watchmaker's Daughter]
Summary
Regresa una de las grandes autoras contemporáneas. ¿Mi nombre verdadero? Nadie lo recuerda. ¿Los sucesos de aquel verano? Nadie más los conoce. En el verano de 1862, un grupo de jóvenes artistas, guiados por el apasionado y brillante Edward Radcliffe, viaja a Birchwood Manor, una casa de campo en Berkshire. Tienen un plan: vivir los siguientes meses recluidos y dejarse llevar por su inspiración y creatividad. Sin embargo, cuando el verano toca a su fin, una mujer ha muerto de un disparo y otra ha desaparecido, se ha extraviado una joya de valor incalculable y la vida de Edward Radcliffe se ha desmoronado. Unos ciento cincuenta años más tarde, Elodie Winslow, una joven archivista de Londres, descubre una cartera de cuero que contiene dos objetos sin relación aparente: una fotografía en sepia de una mujer de gran belleza con un vestido victoriano y el cuaderno de bocetos de un artista en el que hay un dibujo de una casa de dos tejados en el recodo de un río. ¿Por qué ese boceto de Birchwood Manor le resulta tan familiar a Elodie? ¿Y quién es esa hermosa mujer que aparece en la fotografía? ¿Le revelará alguna vez sus secretos? Narrada por varias voces a lo largo del tiempo, La hija del relojero es la historia de un asesinato, un misterio y un robo, una reflexión sobre el arte, la verdad y la belleza, el amor y las pérdidas. Por sus páginas fluye como un río la voz de una mujer ya libre de las ataduras del tiempo y cuyo nombre ha caído en el olvido: Birdie Bell, la hija del relojero, la única persona que vio todo lo sucedido. La mejor novela histórica disponible en formato audiolibro. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2018 Kate Morton (P)2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
En fjern hvisken
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Edie og hendes mor har aldrig haft et nært forhold, men da et gammelt brev fra Milderhurst Castle pludselig dukker op, får Edie en mistanke om, at forklaringen på moderens følelsesmæssige kulde måske har sin rod der. Hun beslutter sig for at trodse moderens ønske og selv besøge slottet. Efterhånden som Edie får optrevlet historien om, hvordan hendes mor, der som ung pige var evakueret til slottet under krigen, hører hun også en fjern hvisken fra slottets mure om andre gamle hemmeligheder, som har været begravet alt for længe.
©2018 Gyldendal (P)2018 Gyldendal
Die Tochter des Uhrmachers
Summary
Was geschah vor 150 Jahren im Haus am Fluss?
Birchwood Manor 1862: Der talentierte Edward Radcliffe lädt Künstlerfreunde in sein Landhaus an der Themse ein. Doch der verheißungsvolle Sommer endet in einer Tragödie - eine Frau verschwindet, eine andere stirbt, und Radcliffes Leben ist ruiniert.
Hundertfünfzig Jahre später entdeckt Elodie Winslow, eine junge Archivarin aus London, die Sepiafotografie einer atemberaubend schönen Frau und die Zeichnung eines Hauses mit zwei Giebeln an einem Fluss. Warum kommt Elodie das Haus so bekannt vor? Und wer ist die faszinierende Frau auf dem Foto? Wird sie ihr Geheimnis jemals preisgeben?
Esther Schweins verzaubert und entführt uns in die Welt von Kate Morton.
©2018 Kate Morton / Diana (P)2018 Random House Audio
En velbevaret hemmelighed
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Forfatteren til "Den glemte have" er tilbage med en stor roman om familiehemmeligheder, der elegant bevæger sig frem og tilbage mellem tiden omkring 2. verdenskrig, starten af 1960'erne og nutiden. På en varm sommerdag i begyndelsen af 1960'erne har den 16-årige Laurel gemt sig fra familien og drømmer om fremtiden, der ligger og venter på hende. Men drømmerierne får en brat afslutning, da Laurel oppe fra sit skjul bliver vidne til en alvorlig forbrydelse. 50 år senere er Laurel den berømte skuespillerinde, hun drømte om at blive, men fortidens hændelser har kastet lange skygger ind over hendes voksenliv. Hun vender derfor tilbage til sit barndomshjem for at forstå, hvad det egentlig var, hun som teenager var vidne til.
©2018 Gyldendal (P)2018 Gyldendal
En fjern hvisken
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Edie og hendes mor har aldrig haft et nært forhold, men da et gammelt brev fra Milderhurst Castle pludselig dukker op, får Edie en mistanke om, at forklaringen på moderens følelsesmæssige kulde måske har sin rod der. Hun beslutter sig for at trodse moderens ønske og selv besøge slottet. Efterhånden som Edie får optrevlet historien om, hvordan hendes mor, der som ung pige var evakueret til slottet under krigen, hører hun også en fjern hvisken fra slottets mure om andre gamle hemmeligheder, som har været begravet alt for længe.
©2018 Gyldendal (P)2018 Gyldendal
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Las horas distantes [The Distant Hours]
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Todo comenzó con una carta. Una carta que llevaba extraviada mucho tiempo, esperando durante más de medio siglo en una saca de correos olvidada en el oscuro desván de una anodina casa de Londres.... De la autora de El jardín olvidado, cuyas ventas en el mundo superan los 4 millones de ejemplares vendidos, y La casa de Riverton, com más de 2 millones de ejemplares vendidos. Edie Burchill y su madre nunca han estado lo que se dice unidas. Pero un domingo por la tarde llega a su casa una carta, perdida hace tiempo, con el remite de Milderhurst Castle, en Kent (Inglaterra), y Edie empieza a pensar que la frialdad de su madre oculta un antiguo secreto. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la madre de Edie fue evacuada de Londres y acogida por la misteriosa Juniper Blythe en Milderhurst Castle, donde vivía con sus hermanas gemelas y su padre, Raymond, autor del clásico infantil La verdadera historia del Hombre de Barro. El espléndido y enorme castillo le muestra un nuevo mundo en el que descubre la fantasía y el placer de los libros, pero también sus peligros. Cincuenta años más tarde, cuando Edie busca las respuestas al enigma de su madre, se siente atraída por Milderhurst Castle, donde, ya ancianas, las excéntricas gemelas y Juniper viven todavía. En el ya ruinoso castillo, Edie investiga el pasado de su madre. Pero hay otros secretos escondidos entre sus muros, y Edie está a punto de averiguar más de lo que esperaba. Lo que realmente sucedió en las horas distantes ha estado aguardando mucho tiempo a que alguien lo desvelara. Con un estilo cautivador y una elegante manera de narrar que nos remite a Dickens, las hermanas Brönte y Jane Austen, Kate Morton da una vuelta de tuerca a la novela clásica victoriana para sumergirnos en una trama absorbente y componer un puzle tan hermoso como brillante. «Memorias, intriga y secretos de familia entretejidos en un absorbente laberinto de tramas complementarias que nos arrastran a una lectura llena de fuerza, ternura y emoción. Con un estilo ágil y envolvente, Kate Morton nos conmueve con una magnífica historia difícil de olvidar.» (María Dueñas) «Kate Morton, [...] en la tradición de literatura clásica anglosajona, es el último fenómeno literario. [...] Atrapa a los lectores con lazo por su manera de contar gustosa, minuciosa, victoriana.» (El País Semanal) «Entre sus páginas se oyen ecos del mejor Maupassant, el lejano Bradbury y sus tormentas internas y el psicológico Henry James y sus personajes inquietantes. Pero, sobre todo, Morton ha dado vida a un territorio mítico e incognoscible: la posesión más valiosa del ser humano: los recuerdos.» (Ángeles López, Qué leer) Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2015 Kate Morton (P)2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
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La casa de Riverton [The House at Riverton]
Summary
Escucha ahora este magnífico retrato de los últimos esplendores de la aristocracia inglesa, un mundo de convenciones y secretos atravesado por vehementes pasiones y terribles desengaños. Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, una preciosa mansión a orillas de un lago, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Las únicas testigos de ese dramático hecho, las hermanas Hannah y Emmeline Hartford, no se volverán a hablar nunca más. Invierno de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de noventa y ocho años que otrora fuera doncella en Riverton Manor recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que está rodando una película sobre el suicidio del poeta. Esa visita convoca los fantasmas del pasado, recuerdos que durante décadas Grace había relegado a lo más profundo de su mente, incapaz de enfrentarse a ellos. El mejor romance histórico disponible en formato audiolibro. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2006 Kate Morton (P)2019 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
Nipped in the Bud
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When pretty little Ina Kell arrived in Manhattan full of foolish dreams about making it big in show business, she had no idea how quickly she’d be in the headlines. But when TV personality Tony Fagan is murdered in the apartment building where she’s staying and she disappears shortly thereafter, the search is on, led by Inspector Oscar Piper and his long-time friend Hildegarde Withers. The chief suspect is playboy Junior Gault, whose company sponsored Fagan’s show and who was the target of some intemperate remarks Fagan made on the air. Hildy and her beloved poodle Talleyrand soon find themselves in Tijuana, where a clever street urchin named Vito becomes her right-hand man. She’s soon joined by Oscar, Junior’s socialite fiancée Dallas Trempleau, and other refugees from the Big Apple. And while Hildy may be retired from teaching, she’s clearly not ready to put her career as an amateur sleuth extraordinaire behind her just yet.
©1951, 1979 Stuart Palmer (P)2013 Audible, Inc.