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Today’s Blog Post
My Amazing Adventure with Kate Morton and the Forgotten Garden
On the back of the book there is a statement from The Daily News(NY) as they had reviewed this book. It states simply, “A long, lush, perfectly escapist read.”
The Book’s title was “the Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton.
As I walked by it in the small library I picked it up and looked closer. It was then that I read the words on the back. It was then that something made me borrow it.
Last evening I finish reading this amazing book!
Over the last days as I read this account of the little girl and all the fascinating people of this book, that I decided I must buy one! This book is a keeper. It is one that I will read again – I am sure.
Kate Morton, you may not read these words from another small time author, but you are amazing. You are an unbelievable story teller. You are also young and the world has yet to discover what you can do – I am sure!!!
I should tell you Kate that I love reading John Grisham’s books. I have read everyone that he has published. He has been my Number One author… but now you have joined him on my pedestal of favourites. And you did that with just one book!
Now for my Blog Readers you will know that I am retired. I had served as a Minister in churches in many different places in our old world. In almost all of these churches and the communities that we lived in there have been thousands of stories that are hidden in the lives of people that I had met. Some were good and some were bad. But all needed to be told.
Most stories would vanish if one of the children or grandkids didn’t tell it… or write it down. For most that record would be lost… and was lost to the future generations.
Kate Morton has shown me how each story needs to be told.
A long time ago I took part in an amazing journey by way of a class that I was taking in my post-grad studies of Gerontology. The class guided us all into the adventure of writing a “Life Line” for some senior in our life experience. The whole idea was very simple. It forced you to take time to listen to the person and carefully discover who they really were.
The dear older lady that I chose had been my two daughter’s Sunday School Teacher. She was very small, black lady with a wonderful but terribly sad story. She had never told anyone the story before – but at 97 years old she had found a young man, me, ready to listen. I wrote the story and Aced the class.
My instructor told me that she almost failed me in the class because she couldn’t stop crying after reading the account that I placed in my paper.
(I can’t give any more details here – it may become a best seller some day… sorry)
Kate Morton’s book is nothing short of amazing. Thank you Kate.
The result has been to make me want to travel to both the Cornwall area of Britain and also the Brisbane area of Australia.
Now I have to find “The House of Riverton” – Kate’s first book. I can’t wait. I hope it is even one little bit as good as the one I just finished.
In Wikipedia the following is stated… quote..
"Morton is the eldest of three sisters. Her family moved several times before settling on Tamborine Mountain where she attended a small country school. She enjoyed reading books from an early age, her favourites being those by Enid Blyton.
She completed a Licentiate in Speech and Drama from Trinity College London and then a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Later she earned first class honours for her English Literature degree at the University of Queensland, during which time she wrote two full-length manuscripts (which are unpublished) before writing the story that would become the 2006 novel The Shifting Fog (The House at Riverton).
Following this she obtained a scholarship and completed a Master's degree focussing on tragedy in Victorian literature. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program researching contemporary novels that marry elements of gothic and mystery fiction.
Kate is married to Davin, a jazz musician and composer, and they have two sons; they live in a near-city Brisbane suburb."
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Thank you Kate – from one of your new fans!!!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/
Resource
About Kate Morton
http://www.katemorton.com/
http://www.katemorton.com/kates-work/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Morton
Kate Morton telling her account of writing The Forgotten Garden”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7mC8PGDwQ
1 comment:
The Forgotten Garden was the selection for my Book Club last month and I have to say that when I first heard it was the book we would be reading I wasn't all that excited. I had already read this book when it first came out after reading, and loving, the author's first book - The Shifting Fog (or The House at Riverton as it is named in the UK) and I was disappointed that I was going to be "forced" to read a book that I hadn't enjoyed all that much the first time all over again! I had initially felt let down by Morton's second novel - on my first reading I hadn't felt that The Forgotten Garden was as powerful or as original as The Shifting Fog - but my second reading has definitely redeemed the book in my eyes.
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