Fast forward 70 years and the photograph is now faded, the rooms abandoned, the garden ramshackle and the secrets tucked away. Imagine this as a photograph – captured as a moment in time. The Lake House and its grounds are like a fairytale setting but with a dark mystery at its core. Alice herself skips into the woods, imagining plotlines, characters and scenarios she wants to happen. This is a house and a setting that inspires fairy tales – Eleanor and the Magic Doorway – written by a family friend. The family estate of Eleanor Edevane and her family.

A beautiful garden and peaceful lake, gardeners toiling in the background and a family enjoying midsummer on the lawn.Ī narrow stream chattered its way across the estate, delighting in the brief sunny respite before being reeled inexorably back towards the woods, and a stone bridge, the legacy of some long ago great -uncle straddled the banks allowing access to Loeanneth. A sumptuous home in the gorgeous setting of Cornwall. Welcome to Loeanneth, the lake house, home of the Edevane family. The walks and harbour here are just like those the characters experience in the story Kate mentions this in an interview as having reminded her of her lake house – the beautiful gardens of Trerice Inspiration for the lake house and surrounding area? Kate’s been inspired by these in other novels PLACE AND SETTING The Lost Gardens of Heligan However she cannot escape the most intriguing case – that of her very own past. What did really happen that night and what secrets are buried in the tangled and derelict mess of the lake house? Alice Edevane, now a famous author, has spent years trying to contain the unravelling of secrets to within her novels’ plots. One day she stumbles across the abandoned lake house and starts to wonder about its past. Sadie Sparrow returns to her Grandfather’s home in Cornwall on leave from her job as a police detective. The family home, is never the same again and soon becomes an abandoned shrine to its sad fate.

Despite a frantic search, he has seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. For as the evening draws to a close, baby Theo disappears, nowhere to be found.

The family seem happy, the mood idyllic, but behind the happy facade, all is not what it seems.

Years later, the abandoned house still holds the secrets of what happened that night.Įleanor and Anthony live in the gorgeous home with their children Deborah, Alice, Clemmie and baby Theo. 1933, 2003 -An abandoned lake house holds on to the secrets of what happened one fateful night when a baby disappeared never to be seen again.Ī summer’s evening sitting by the lake house, a sumptuous garden, a happy family…hours later the peace shattered and a baby missing.

The lake house book kate morton