![]() ![]() ![]() When Hugh confesses the truth, Nell’s equilibrium is destroyed, but life and World War II intervene, and she doesn’t explore her true origins until 1975, when she journeys to London. At 21, she is engaged to be married and has no idea she is not their biological daughter. Hugh and his wife, childless after several miscarriages, name the girl Nell and raise her as their own. ![]() The little girl cannot recall her name and has no identification, only a white suitcase containing some clothes and a book of fairy tales by Eliza Makepeace. In 1913, Hugh, portmaster of Maryborough, Australia, discovers a child alone on a vessel newly arrived from England. A four-year-old girl abandoned aboard a ship touches off a century-long inquiry into her ancestry, in Morton’s weighty, at times unwieldy, second novel ( The House at Riverton, 2008). ![]()
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