Kate morton author biography assignment

About the author:

KATE MORTON was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature and lives now with her husband and three young sons in London and Australia. The Shifting Fog, published internationally as The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world.

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The narrative for The Clockmaker’s Daughter has a number of timelines and a host of different character perspectives. How do you think this elevates or enhances the story?

For me, as a reader, there’s no better feeling than being immersed in the world of a story. It’s a love that I discovered in childhood, that I continued to seek into adulthood, and which ultimately led me to write for myself. I believe that fictional life should be as multi-faceted and layered as real life, and in The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a book that explores the passage of time in a single location, it

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