The Shifting Fog

By: Kate Morton

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Summer 1924: on the night of a glittering society party by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses are sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, and they will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace’s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge – something history has forgotten but Grace never could.

Set as the Edwardian summer finally surrenders to the decadent twenties, The Shifting Fog is a multi-million-copy bestselling novel and one of the most successful debuts of all time.

2007, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) General Fiction Book of the Year, Winner

2008, Galaxy National Book Awards, Short-listed

2007, The Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year, Winner

2010, Nielsen Gold Book Award, Winner

2019, Golden Pan Award, UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Winner

©2006 Kate Morton. ‘Ten Years; or, Time Capsules, Tapestries and the Art of Learning to Let Go’ Copyright Kate Morton 2017. (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing

Critic reviews

"Combines a rich historical setting with a powerful emotional drama – and a gripping mystery." (The Australian Women's Weekly)

"An extraordinary debut." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"A rollicking good yarn of the sort you might devour in a single weekend." (Vogue)