Shadows of Our Past is a novel about the fate of three generations of the Miltons, a New York family of those who are said to rule the world.
1935 year. Kitty and Ogden Milton are at the height of happiness — they are young, beautiful, love each other, they have wonderful children … But the idyll is destroyed by tragedy — as a result of an absurd accident, a five-year-old son falls out of the window of their apartment on the fourteenth floor.
Trying to somehow distract Kitty, Ogden buys Crockett Island with a large beautiful house on it. Everything here breathes with peace and serenity. This house will become the ancestral home of the Miltons. Their children will grow up in it, and then their grandchildren …
At the beginning of this century, the financial situation no longer allows the third generation of the family to own the island and the house. Talk about the sale begins. Evie Milton goes to the island to say goodbye to the house in which she has spent so many happy days. Finding her by chance would destroy the myth of the impeccable Miltons, the pillars of American society.
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