{"id":8056,"date":"2010-01-23T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2010-01-23T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:51:15","slug":"author-kate-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/01\/23\/author-kate-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"author: kate morton&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8057\" title=\"PJB_katemorton\" src=\"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PJB_katemorton.jpg\" alt=\"PJB_katemorton\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PJB_katemorton.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PJB_katemorton-87x87.jpg 87w, https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PJB_katemorton-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been that much of a fiction reader, nor have I ever really been a follower of an author, but now, I am both. I&#8217;ve just finished reading both of Kate Morton&#8217;s books &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Forgotten-Garden-Kate-Morton\/dp\/0330449605\" target=\"_blank\">The Forgotten Garden<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomerangbooks.com.au\/Shifting-Fog\/Kate-Morton\/book_reviews_9781741751772.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Shifting Fog<\/a> (a.k.a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/House-at-Riverton-Kate-Morton\/dp\/0330448447\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\" target=\"_blank\">The House at Riverton<\/a>) and thoroughly enjoyed them. I am eagerly awaiting the release of her third book.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s a great story teller. Her writing style is so visual and descriptive without going overboard (nothing worse than an over-described inanimate object like a hairbrush or blade of grass, in my opinion). My favourite of the two is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Forgotten-Garden-Kate-Morton\/dp\/0330449605\" target=\"_blank\">The Forgotten Garden<\/a>. I was also pleasantly surprised to read that Kate is Australian, and this particular book is partly set in southeast Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>If like me you<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/01\/21\/they-sure-dont-build-houses-like-they-used-to\/\" target=\"_blank\"> love period settings and antiquated interiors<\/a> then you will probably immerse yourself in these books as much as I did &#8211; perfect holiday or &#8220;down time&#8221; reading.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been that much of a fiction reader, nor have I ever really been a follower of an author, but now, I am both. I&#8217;ve just finished reading both of Kate Morton&#8217;s books &#8211; The Forgotten Garden and The Shifting Fog (a.k.a The House at Riverton) and thoroughly enjoyed them. I am eagerly awaiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>author: kate morton... - pia jane bijkerk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2010\/01\/23\/author-kate-morton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"author: kate morton... - pia jane bijkerk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve never been that much of a fiction reader, nor have I ever really been a follower of an author, but now, I am both. 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