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Été 1924, dans la propriété de Riverton. L'étoile montante de la poésie anglaise, lord Robert Hunter, se donne la mort près d'un lac, au cours d'une soirée. Dès lors, les sœurs Emmeline et Hannah Hartford, seuls témoins de ce drame, ne se sont plus adressé la parole. Selon la rumeur, l'une était sa fiancée et l'autre son amante... 1999. Une jeune réalisatrice décide de faire un film autour de ce scandale et s'adresse au dernier témoin vivant, Grace Bradley, ancienne domestique au château. Grace s'est toujours efforcée d'oublier cette nuit-là. Mais les fantômes du passé ne demandent qu'à se réveiller.

Collines d'Adelaïde, 1959. La veille de Noël, un homme fait une terrible découverte au mystérieux domaine des Turner. Une enquête policière est ouverte et la petite ville de Tumbeela est impliquée dans l'une des affaires de meurtre les plus choquantes de l'histoire de l'Australie du Sud. Soixante ans plus tard, Jess, journaliste à Londres, est à la recherche d'un sujet. Quand elle reçoit un appel de Sydney pour l'informer que sa grand-mère est à l'hôpital à la suite d'une chute, la jeune femme décide de rentrer en Australie auprès de celle qui l'a élevée.

1961 : Au cours d'une journée d'été étouffante, alors que sa famille pique-nique près du ruisseau qui longe leur ferme de Suffolk, la jeune Laurel âgée de seize ans se cache dans la cabane de son enfance en rêvant à son déménagement à Londres et à l'avenir radieux qui l'attend. Mais avant même que cet après-midi idyllique ne s'achève, Laurel est témoin d'un terrible crime.

1933, Cornouailles. Un soir de fête chez les Edevane, le petit Théo, adorable poupon de onze mois, disparaît. Les enquêteurs remuent ciel et terre, mais l'enfant demeure introuvable. Pour les parents comme pour la famille Edevane, la vie ne sera plus jamais la même après ce drame. La maison du lac, la propriété tant aimée, est fermée et laissée à l'abandon. Soixante-dix ans plus tard, Sadie Sparrow, jeune inspectrice londonienne en vacances dans la région, s'intéresse à cette mystérieuse disparition.

Lorsqu'elle reçoit une lettre égarée depuis cinquante ans, Meredith Burchill se retrouve confrontée à un passé qu'elle a toujours dissimulé. En 1939, comme de nombreux autres enfants, elle a dû fuir Londres sous les bombes. Recueillie par une famille d'aristocrates du Kent, elle a noué une solide amitié avec la cadette, Juniper. Pourquoi Meredith n'a-t-elle rien dit de cet épisode de sa vie ? Afin de comprendre son silence, sa fille Edie part à la découverte du château de Milderhurst, qui recèle de nombreux mystères.

A lost child: On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her 21st birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.

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.

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Until a phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney.

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.

1961. On a sweltering summer’s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, 16-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house, dreaming of the bright future she can’t wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything. 2011. Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds.

En un caluroso día de verano, mientras su familia se va de picnic al arroyo de su granja en Suffolk, la adolescente Laurel se esconde en la casa del árbol de su infancia, fantaseando con un muchacho llamado Billy, una huida a Londres y un futuro grandioso que aguarda con impaciencia. Sin embargo, antes de que esa tarde idílica toque a su fin, Laurel presenciará un crimen aterrador que lo cambiará todo.

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.

Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-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.

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive and precociously talented 16-year-old who loves to write stories. One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, 11-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. He is never found, and the family is torn apart and the house abandoned.

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.

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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.

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.

Una nave scivola silenziosa nel porto di Brisbane, in Australia. Sulla banchina c'è una bambina di quattro anni. Molti anni dopo, Nell scopre una verità sconvolgente sul proprio passato e inizia la ricerca delle proprie origini. Tra le scogliere della Cornovaglia trova una villa dimenticata e un giardino avvolto da un'antica magia. Ma sarà Cassandra, sua nipote, a raccogliere il filo di una storia che lega tre donne, tre epoche e un segreto nascosto per decenni.

UN’ANTICA DIMORA NEL SUD DELL’AUSTRALIA. UN TERRIBILE OMICIDIO RIMASTO IRRISOLTO. UNA DONNA IN CERCA DI RISPOSTE. Adelaide Hills, Vigilia di Natale 1959. Non si registra un’estate così calda da decenni. Strizzando gli occhi verso il sole, tutti si chiedono quando quel caldo torrido li lascerà in pace. È il tramonto della Vigilia di Natale, quando Percy Summer, il fattorino del paese, si avventura tra le colline e fa una scoperta agghiacciante. Nei pressi di una sontuosa tenuta di campagna, una donna e i suoi bambini si sono appisolati dopo un picnic.