![]() ![]() ![]() In practically every sentence, she described a smell, a sight, a taste, or a sound. ![]() Perhaps she got swept away with her life-long romanticisation of the English landscape, perhaps she’s just naturally wordy: either way, her writing in The Lake House was extremely descriptive right from the outset. When she sat down to write The Lake House, she was based in Brisbane, but she decided to set the story in Cornwall as a kind of tourism-of-the-mind experiment. She’s a fellow Queenslander-by-birth, and we both grew up loving Enid Blyton and dreaming about snowy England and adventures in moors and forests with the Famous Five and the Secret Seven. Morton and I actually have quite a bit in common. So, my expectations going into this one were pretty high. She’s also, for some strange reason, really big in Canada. Every single one of her titles has made the New York Times Best Seller List. She is one of Australia’s biggest literary exports since Colleen McCullough, with international sales at ten million books and growing. ![]() The Lake House is Morton’s sixth novel, published back in 2015 ( The Clockmaker’s Daughter is her most recent offering, and it made a real splash at the end of last year). ![]()
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