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6 unusual facts about Kate Morton


1913 Ais Gill rail accident

The train crash plays an important role in the plotline events of the Kate Morton novel The Forgotten Garden.

Kate Morton

Her family moved several times before settling on Tamborine Mountain where she attended a small country school.

Kate Morton is married to Davin, a jazz musician and composer, and they have two sons; they live in the Brisbane suburb of Paddington.

Later she earned first-class honours for her English Literature degree at the University of Queensland, during which time she wrote two full-length manuscripts (which are unpublished) before writing the story that would become the 2006 novel The Shifting Fog (The House at Riverton).

To market, to market

In the novel, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, Percy Blythe recites the line "Home again, home again, jiggety jig" at the beginning of the chapter titled "Three."

Tregenna Castle

Blackhurst Estate, one of the settings in the 2008 novel The Forgotten Garden by Australian author Kate Morton, is rumored to be loosely based upon Tregenna Castle with the fictional village of Tregenna; which sits under Blackhurst, to be a fictional version of St Ives.



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