Review by Babs on show feb 2012
I really enjoyed Kate Morton's first two books - The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden -so was really looking forward to reading The Distant Hours. But, oh, what a disappointment it was! It is very long, 670 Pages, and although the story is interesting, it seemed to me to have been unnecessarily extended with page after page of not very much happening.
It tells the story of three sisters living in a run-down castle in Kent, all of whom are either eccentric or pretty loopy and veers between 1939, when they take in a young evacuee from London, and 1992 when, by coincidence, this evacuee's daughter is commissioned to write the forward for a new edition of a gothic hrror story writen by the sister's father in 1918. There are lots of twists and turns as the ghastliness of what happened before and during the war is revealed and which has left its mark on all of them.
But it is so long and contains so much waffle that I could hardly bring myself to care about any of it. I battled through to the last page but, oh how I wish an editor had done what editor's are there for - to cut down and weed out all irrelevant material that takes the reader's attention from a potentially very good story. So, very sorry, Kate Morton, please try to write a shorter one next time!
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