<p><b><i>The Distant Hours</i> by Kate Morton, author of the bestselling <i>The House of Riverton</i>, is a heartbreaking story of love and loss with a devastating secret at its heart.</b><br><br>Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close but, when a long-lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret.<br><br>Evacuated from London as a thirteen-year-old girl, Edie’s mother was chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family.<br><br>Fifty years later, Edie, too, is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together as the twins nurse Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiancé in 1941 plunged her into madness.<br><br>Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to un
