![]() In The Lake House, Morton uses the talismanic power of a deserted, masterless house to grant her heroine, Sadie Sparrow, passage back in time to investigate the cold case mystery of a toddler who disappears without a trace from an aristocratic country house on the night of a grand Midsummer Eve party. She is big in Canada and has made it to the New York Times bestsellers list four times, with each of her previous titles.Īnd she has reached such commercial heights by romanticising an English Eden of manor houses and formal gardens reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Daphne de Maurier's Rebecca and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, favourites of her childhood and teenage years. ![]() Her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Morton is one of Australia's most successful literary exports since Colleen McCullough. ''I sometimes wonder if living here will give me a much stronger drive to write about Australia, and bring Australia to life in my imaginative world." "I was writing not so much to reflect or capture my own experience in words, I was always writing to entertain myself, to go somewhere, and that was the place I felt like going, perhaps because it's such a contrast to my real life. ![]() ![]() "That was just where the story took me,'' she says. ![]()
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