Maybe, like me, you still haven’t seen The Movie. At this
point, I’ve resigned myself to wait for it to stream.
In the meantime, I’m revisiting some of
the Downton-esque reads I created for this list compiled in October of 2015.
Atonement by Ian McEwan
after multiple readings never disappoints.
Briony, age 13, misinterprets a brief scene she witnesses in the library
and changes lives in ways even the impending war cannot.
The
House at Riverton by Kate Morton shifts between 1924 and
1999. When a modern filmmaker decides to make a movie about the Hartford
sisters, she finds a primary source in former housemaid Grace Bradley. As Grace
thinks back to her years in service, she remembers not the glamour of the
times, but the craftily concealed deceit.
The
Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton opens in 1913 with a
four-year-old wandering aboard a ship bound for Australia. The little girl
grows up with her adopted family and decade after decade discovers another part
of her mysterious past. When she dies, she bestows a house to her grieving
granddaughter. Tracing her grandmother’s steps, she fits the pieces together
for the reader.
The
Little Stranger by Sarah Waters looks at a once stately
household now fallen into disrepair. The Ayres family is befriended by a lonely
country doctor. He soon discovers that their ailments are hauntingly difficult
to diagnose.
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