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Ashton Hall : a novel / Lauren Belfer.

Belfer, Lauren, (author.).

Summary:
When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers, Nicky close by her side. Working from clues in centuries-old ledgers showing what the woman's household spent on everything from music to medicine; lists of books checked out of the library; and the troubling personal papers of the long-departed family, Hannah begins to recreate the Ashton Hall of the Elizabethan era in all its color and conflict. As the multilayered secrets of her own life begin to unravel, Hannah comes to realize that Ashton Hall's women before her had lives not so different from her own, and she confronts what mothers throughout history have had to do to secure their independence and protect their children.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593359495
  • ISBN: 0593359496
  • Physical Description: 397 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-393).
Subject: Manors > England > Fiction.
Mother and child > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 22 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library MYS BELFER (Text) 50686016178621 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F BEL (Text) 33240004957141 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults BEL Fiction (Text) 34001001416773 Adult Area Available -
FD Campbell Memorial Library FIC BEL (Text) 32002000384923 FDCM Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library HIST FIC BELFER LAUREN (Text)
Endowment: Mildred O. Zanger Named Endowment, 2022
35740635846306 Historical Fiction Available -
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library F Bel 2022 (Text) 10HOL000480762 Adult Fiction Available -
Huntingdon County Library F BEL (Text) 30298100597883 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Belfer (Text) 39427103661633 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Kreutz Creek Valley Library Adults BEL Fiction (Text) 34261000616472 Adult Area Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults BEL Fiction (Text) 34262000777645 Main Room Available -

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