Books like The Forgotten Garden
In 1913 a four-year-old girl is found alone on a ship docked in Australia with nothing but a small suitcase and a book of fairy tales; decades later her granddaughter Cassandra inherits a cottage on the Cornish coast and follows the trail back to where the girl came from.
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My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, sixty-four and newly home from hospital, owns a painting by her father, a Victorian artist suddenly back in fashion, and her three grown children each have plans for it.
The Silent Companions
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
The White Earth
After his father's death, eight-year-old William goes to live with his great-uncle John on what is left of a great Queensland station, which the old man is obsessed with keeping from native title claims.
Howards End
The idealistic Schlegel sisters, the wealthy, practical Wilcoxes and a struggling clerk, Leonard Bast, become entangled over a country house and a disputed bequest, in a novel about who will inherit England.
Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney, newly retired from the tennis school she ran with her husband Stan for fifty years, disappears without her phone, and as police start to look at Stan, their four grown children remember the stranger who turned up on their parents' doorstep one night the year before.
Banyan Moon
After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.
The Names
In 1987 Cora goes to register her newborn son: her violent husband wants him named Gordon, after himself, and her nine-year-old daughter likes Bear, and the novel follows the three different lives that unfold from each name.
Rebecca
A shy young woman marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his estate, Manderley, where the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, and the housekeeper devoted to her, still rule.
The Woman in White
A drawing master walking to London at midnight meets a woman dressed all in white who has escaped from an asylum, and the encounter draws him into a conspiracy surrounding the heiress he has fallen for.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.