They reveal some shocking information about Grace's lover, Chester Gillette, who checked into the hotel as Carl Grahm. She is drawn in by the mystery of what they might say, and she begins to read them. Mattie remembers the letters, which she did not have time to burn. Later that day, Grace is found dead in the lake near the hotel. One of the hotel guests, Grace Brown, asks Mattie to burn a pack of letters. The novel begins in the present day, with teenaged Mattie Cokey working at The Glenmore, a hotel on Big Moose Lake, to earn money during the summer. The novel is written in alternating chapters from the past and present. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. In the U.K., Bloomsbury published an edition within the calendar year, entitled A Gathering Light, and Donnelly won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding book by a British author for children or young adults. Set in northern Herkimer County, New York in 1906, it is based on the murder of Grace Brown case -the basis also for An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925). A Northern Light, or A Gathering Light in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003.
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