- Publisher
- Corvus / Atlantic Books
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 978-1782390299
- First Published
- 2013
2013 · Christmas Fiction
A Season of Secrets
A precious discovery will change everything.
France · UK
A snow-bound English country house, a long-buried family secret, and one winter that quietly puts everything right — a warm, atmospheric Christmas novel from the author of The Beauty Chorus.
An Excerpt
“The snow had been falling since first light, and by afternoon the house looked the way it must have looked a hundred years before — softened at every edge, and keeping its secrets beautifully.”
About the Story
Inside A Season of Secrets
When Flora returns to her family's snowbound country estate for what she expects to be a quiet Christmas, she finds the house has been waiting for her — and so has a bundle of letters her grandmother never meant her to read.
As the snow deepens around the estate, Flora begins to piece together a wartime love story that has shaped her family in ways no one has ever quite said aloud.
A Season of Secrets is a tender, atmospheric winter novel about inheritance, forgiveness and the small, precious discoveries that quietly change everything.
Best Reviews
Selected from press and readers
“Captivating.”
“A perfectly judged winter read — warm, romantic and quietly moving.”
“I read it in one snowy afternoon and wished there were more.”
Reader Reviews
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Themes
- Family Secrets
- Country House
- Wartime Love
- Christmas
A Note from Kate
Inspired by a snowed-in winter at a Georgian house in the West Country, and a bundle of real wartime letters found at the back of a writing desk.
