The Lake House: New York Times bestseller, Sunday Times bestseller, #1 bestseller in Australia, #1 bestseller in Canada, Spiegel bestseller, El País bestseller.
The Secret Keeper: Sunday Times bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Spiegel bestseller, El País bestseller, winner of the General Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (2013), winner of the Christina Stead Award, Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards (2012), winner of The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year (2013). The Distant Hours: New York Times bestseller, #1 bestseller Spain, #1 bestseller Ireland Spiegel bestseller, (commended) Christina Stead Award, Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards (2010). The Forgotten Garden: New York Times bestseller, Sunday Times #1 bestseller, #1 bestseller Spain, Spiegel bestseller, winner of the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year (2009), longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2010).
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award Best Novel nominee (2008), Nielsen Gold Book Award 2010, Golden Pan Award UK 1,000,000 copies sold, Indie Next Outstanding Debut Winter 2009. The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog): Sunday Times #1 bestseller, New York Times bestseller, Winner - Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year 2007, General Fiction Book of the Year at the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, and nominated for Most Popular Book at the British Book Awards in 2008. They have three children and live in London. Kate Morton is married to Davin Patterson, a jazz musician and composer. During her undergraduate studies she wrote two full-length manuscripts (which are unpublished) before writing The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog), which was published in 2006. Later she earned first-class honours in English Literature at the University of Queensland (1999) and won a scholarship to complete a master's degree focussing on tragedy in Victorian literature. She completed a Licentiate in Speech and in Drama from Trinity College London and then a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She enjoyed reading books from an early age, her favourites being those by Enid Blyton. Her family moved several times before settling on Tamborine Mountain where she attended a small country school. Morton at a book signing in Barcelona, April 2013
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