Kindle Edition, 386 pages
Published July 21st 2020 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (first published May 14th 2020)
What They Say..... Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found.
The Harrington family takes her in and disbelief quickly turns to joy. They're grieving a terrible tragedy of their own and the beautiful baby fills them with hope, lighting up the house's dark, dusty corners. Desperate not to lose her to the authorities, they keep her secret, suspended in a blissful summer world where normal rules of behaviour - and the law - don't seem to apply.
But within days a body will lie dead in the grounds. And their dreams of a perfect family will shatter like glass.
Years later, the truth will need to be put back together again, piece by piece . . .
What I Say.... Eve Chase!!! I love her books and you definitely have to be patient because she only puts one out about every 2-3 years. So I was beyond excited to get a review copy of The Daughters of Foxcote Manor.
Rita grew up with her grandmother, and is beyond excited to get a job as a nanny in London, with a glamorous mistress,, Jeannie, pregnant with her third child. Rita loves the children, but Jeannie is devastated when her baby is delivered stillborn. She never even got to see her, her husband, Walter decided it would be too painful, so she has no closure.
Walter decides that his wife and children need to be bundled off to the country for the summer, without him. He puts Rita in charge, and demands that she give him private reports on his wife's mental health - deciding whether she needs to be put away.
Rita doesn't want to spy on Jeannie, but Walter holds all the power, and the money, so she has to go along with it.
As the summer goes on, Rita has to contend with Jeannie's mood swings, Hera's insecurity and anger towards her mother, a family friend who comes to stay and won't leave, and a baby that was found on a fencepost covered in ants. Yep, you read that correctly. A foundling that Jeannie immediately begins to think of as her replacement baby, and pushes Rita to delay notifying the police.
Poor Rita, she is also dealing with a local boy that seems interested in her, but she's not sure how she feels about him. And she can't leave Jeannie in her current situation.
I won't give any spoilers, but this book is full of Eve Chase's twist and turns, and I absolutely loved, loved, loved the ending. Once I was done with this one, I went straight into Black Rabbit Hall and loved that too.
My only complaint is that I want her to write faster!!!! When I finished this book, the first thing I thought was now I probably have to wait until 2022 to see anything new
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