The Lake House

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Edwina was the only person (and she was a golden retriever, after all, not really a person) who could stand Mother when she was like this.

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She listened, alert, and then hurried to the hedge, peering through a small diamond-shaped gap in the leaves.Ben was no longer out on the island and the boat was back at the jetty, but Alice found the three men together near the remaining pile of logs. She wasn’t sure where they came from, these insights into other people’s states of mind, only that they arrived unexpectedly and fully formed. Alex’s brother Henry Wyler greets the duo, but Kate is curious about a photo hanging on the meeting room wall. You may remember how after grabbing food with her mother at Daley Plaza, Kate experienced a nasty accident. The site's critical consensus states: "The plot of The Lake House is a little too convoluted, and the film fails to pull off the sweeping romance it aims for.

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But even better than the page-turning suspense of the whodunit, are the vividly-drawn characters with backstories so deep and so multifaceted that you will be totally drawn into this captivating tale. Her fingers found the ribbon of hair that always fell loose by her ear and she wound it between her fingers, back and forth, over and over. They never tired of kneeling down by the hedge and hunting for the buried top of the old stone pillar. Sadie had shrugged, puzzling over why that might be considered a bad thing, and she’d known then, with surprisingly little regret, that it wasn’t going to work out between them.

While a happy ending is what the creative heads aimed for the story, they did not tie all the loose ends. The characters were so interesting, and it was good to have so much of their backgrounds brought into the book. I don’t know what’s got into you lately, but Ashford isn’t stupid, he’s going to be watching like a hawk.

The Lake House – Kate Morton

The theme here is lost children: a toddler who went missing in 1933, and a modern-day detective who can't believe the mother in an unsolved case abandoned her child.Finding out Kate Morton's latest novel is a big old beef of a book is like having the new season of your favourite Netflix series drop: you want to devour it all in one go, but are simultaneously pleased you have hours' worth of enjoyment ahead of you. Kate does not live in the house since she does not think that a cottage should be more than 6000 square feet in area. Because of her past as a pregnant teen who had to give up her daughter (who after all these years is trying to get in touch with her), Sadie finds it hard to accept her colleagues’ belief that Maggie simply abandoned her daughter Caitlyn; there are too many signs that convince her this isn’t what happened.