As I was looking through my Goodreads feed I saw my mom gave 5 stars to The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, and I’ve read it but couldn’t remember the plot so I clicked on it to remind myself and had an “oh no I’m losing my mind” moment because the blurb on Goodreads wasn’t familiar at all. Not even a little. It was a different edition from the one I read so I switched to that, and sanity restored: completely different blurb and I definitely remembered reading the book this blurb described. It seems so strange that different editions of the same book on Goodreads would have very different (and flat out incorrect) blurbs.
I tried copy/pasting into google the other blurb because I was curious what book it was describing and got nothing. I tried searching for Kate Morton books with characters named Queenie. Nothing. I tried searching WWII books with characters named Queenie. Nothing. And the really odd thing is Milderhurst Castle during WWII is actually the setting for The Distant Hours, but nothing else about the plot is right. That detail alone almost makes it feel like an Al-generated blurb.
Is this blurb describing an actual book? Does anyone know what book it is?
“September 1940, and in the skies above the Weald of Kent the Battle of Britain rages. On a moonlit night on the grounds of Millderhurst Castle, twelve-year-old Queenie sits high in the branches of an oak tree waiting impatiently for the dog-fighting to begin. The unimaginable happens-an enemy plane crashes in the wood where she’s perched. The family takes in the injured pilot, expecting him to die that very night. But he recovers and his life will forever alter the family’s destiny.”
by sleepy_bobbin