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Rose Cottage

  • 1994 first published
  • 238 pages
  • ★ 3.7 (6 ratings)
  • 12 editions

Mary Stewart's Rose Cottage (1994) is a romantic suspense novel. The story is set in Great Britain and England, in 1945-. Readers will find themes of villages, Identification, birthparents and country life.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 32 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions.

At about 238 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About Rose Cottage

In the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick, widowed by the war, returns to Rose Cottage, her childhood home. A tiny thatched dwelling nestled in an idyllic country setting, Rose Cottage at first appears the picture of tranquility. But Kate soon discovers that someone has broken in; the papers that are the object of her visit have disappeared, and the village seethes with gossip. How harmless are her elderly neighbors who are suspected of witchcraft? And what is behind their reports of nighttime prowlers and ghosts in the cottage garden?
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

  • 1945-

Subjects

  • Villages
  • Identification
  • Birthparents
  • Country life
  • Widows
  • Romance
  • England
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Disappeared persons
  • Suspense romance

Quick answers

Who wrote Rose Cottage?

Rose Cottage was written by Mary Stewart and first published in 1994.

What genre is Rose Cottage?

It is usually shelved as Romantic Suspense.

How long is Rose Cottage?

The median edition has 238 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Rose Cottage?

Readers who like it often enjoy Second Sight, Mischief and The River Knows.

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