I said last week that I would start doing contests soon and here we are! I will admit, I haven’t bought this book yet but I will do so in the next week or so while the contest is still active. You know, I don’t even own this book as I borrowed it from my library. I’ll have to buy one for myself too. I’m really excited about this actually. I love buying books for my friends for their birthdays - I actually bought this same book for my friend Suzi for her birthday - so giving a book away is just as fun.

The book is The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. I read it this year back in January and to begin with, I didn’t make much time to read it. About two weeks after starting it, I really started to read it - two or three chapters a day, and I fell in love with the story. The basic outline is that its based around an old lady called Grace who was a one time maid working at Riverton Manor back in the 1920’s. While she was there, she was the only witness to the death of a poet apart from sisters Hannah and Emmeline who never spoke again after the event. In 1999, Grace gets visited by a director who is making a film about the death of the poet at Riverton Manor. You will seriously love this book. You really care about each character and I cried lots at the end. If you’ve already read/got this book, enter anyway and give it to a family member or a friend!

Right, the rules. The contest opens at the posting of this blog entry and ends May 12th at 11AM GMT. You have until that time to post your blog entry on your website. All you need to do is copy the following below into a blog and then leave a comment on this entry with a link to that blog entry so I know where to look! Oh, if you don’t have a blog, just leave a comment here and let me know you want to be entered. The winner will be announced around 9PM on the 12th and once I have the winners address, the book will be posted to them that week. Make sure you add the links like I have, in the entry.

Katy is holding a contest at her personal blog - Faster the Chase - to win a book, The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. To have a chance at winning, all you have to do is head over to this entry at her website and copy the text at the bottom on to a blog at your website. Easy, right? This will be the first of many contests so make sure you check out her blog regularly. She will ship anywhere in the world so everyone is free to enter.

Good luck!