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Kate Morton

Дата рождения: July 19, 1976 – Berri, South Australia, Australia

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Kate Morton is an Australian novelist known for atmospheric historical and mystery fiction centered on family secrets, memory, and the past. Her bestselling novels include The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, and The Secret Keeper. Published in dozens of languages, her work has reached millions of readers worldwide.

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Kate Morton is an Australian novelist whose fiction grew out of an intensely bookish childhood and a parallel early interest in performance. Born and raised in Australia, she grew up on Tamborine Mountain in southeast Queensland, attended a small country school, and spent much of her childhood reading, inventing make-believe worlds with her sisters, and developing the historical curiosity that would later animate her novels. Before fiction became her main vocation, she studied speech and drama, earning a Licentiate in Speech and Drama from Trinity College London and completing a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She then returned to literary study at the University of Queensland, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in 1999 and a Master of Philosophy in 2002, focusing on Victorian literature. The central early turning point in her career came when, while still acting in community productions, she realized that storytelling on the page mattered more to her than performance on the stage. ((https://www.katemorton.com/about-kate/?utm_source=openai))

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Цитаты

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Maybe it was all part of the same game
-The Forgotten Garden
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From the first instant, I knew I’d found the thing I was meant to do
-A Conversation with Kate Morton
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A gorgeous story of family and secrets and the redemptive power of love
-Wildflower Hill
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A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets
-The Daughters of Foxcote Manor
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An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery
-The Wildling Sisters
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A wonderful, twisty novel of family and secrets—the perfect summer read
-The Midnight Hour
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A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival
-The Nightingale

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"Kate Morton is known for writing about deeply held family secrets"

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