The Distant Hours: A Novel by Kate Morton

Author:Kate Morton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Family secrets, World War, Mystery & Detective, Fiction:Historical, 1939-1945, Family Life, Literary, Evacuation of civilians, General, Historical, War & Military, Kent (England), Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Domestic fiction
ISBN: 9781439152782
Publisher: Atria
Published: 2010-11-09T21:44:15.578000+00:00

IT HAD been eleven years since the advertisements were placed so I’m not sure what I expected; I know only what I hoped: that a fellow by the name of Theo would pick up at the other end and happily fill me in on the past fifty years of Thomas Cavill’s life. Needless to say, it’s not what happened. My first attempt was met by the rude insistence of a disconnection tone and I was so utterly frustrated that I couldn’t help but stamp my foot like a spoiled Victorian child. Miss Yeats was kind enough to ignore the tantrum, reminding me gently to convert the area code to 071 in line with the recent changes, then hovering very closely as I dialed the number. Under scrutiny I grew clumsy and had to try a second time, but finally—success!

I gave the receiver a quick tap to signal that the number had begun to ring, touched Miss Yeats’s shoulder excitedly when the line picked up. It was answered by a kindly lady who told me, when I asked for Theo, that she’d bought the house from an elderly man by that name the year before. “Theodore Cavill,” she said, “that’s who you’re after, isn’t it?”

I could barely contain myself. Theodore Cavill. A relative, then. “That’s him.”

Beneath my nose, Miss Yeats clapped the heels of her hands like a seal.

“He went to live in a nursing home in Putney,” said the lady on the phone, “right by the river. He was very happy about that, I remember. Said he used to teach at a school across the way.”

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