Finished: The House at Riverton (Morton). A good, page-turning book...my gift from our book club's Christmas book exchange! :-) The story of Grace, a ladies maid in a manor house in England before and after World War I. Of course, the book is full of secrets, but none that aren't pretty easy to figure out. When Grace first goes to work for the Hartford family, and their three children, David (17), Hannah (15) and Emmeline (11), she feels an instant connection with the children, who are very close siblings. She watches with envy as they interact and play their imaginary games that no on else can be a part of.... and mourns deeply with the girls after David is killed in WWI. It doesn't take long to figure out that Grace herself is the product of an affair between the children's father and her own mother, who was also a servant at the manor years ago. However, even though other servants, and even Frederick Hartford himself look at her intensely at times, it never comes out openly. Even Grace eventually figures it out, but by that time she is the personal ladies maid for Hannah, who is then married and unhappy. Grace would never jeopardize her relationship of trust with Hannah, and so never dares to mention what she knows. She just remains Hannah's maid for the rest of Hannah's life...which isn't too long in the grand scheme of things. All three Hartford children, plus Robbie, the young man who tears the sisters apart, are dead before they turn 22. Grace, however, lives into her nineties and tells the story as a flashback to her own grandson. Before she dies, she wants to admit to him who her father truly was, so she does so on tape. Along the way, we get to live her life with her vicariously through her telling of the story...and it's a really good one. :-)