The lake house or loeanneth is perhaps her most bewitching setting yet the house and garden truly do read as something out of a fairytale mortons descriptions utterly enchanting also compared to mortons previous books the mystery element to this novel is actually much more the driving focus and centre of the story and morton litters plenty of false trails and red herrings throughout. The lake house is a 2003 novel by james patterson a sequel to when the wind blows. Firstly the setting for the lake house is amazing and kate morton has a wonderful sense of time and place in her novels set in two time frames 1930s cornwall and 2003 london the plot slowly unfolds and the author introduces two mysteries that need solving. Kate morton is the award winning new york times bestselling author of the house at riverton the forgotten garden the distant hours the secret keeper the lake house and the clockmakers daughterher books are published in 34 languages and have been 1 bestsellers worldwide she is a native australian holds degrees in dramatic art and english literature. Buy the book reading groups find out more the lake house a missing child june 1933 and the edevane familys country house loeanneth is polished and gleaming ready for the much anticipated midsummer eve party alice edevane sixteen years old and a budding writer is especially