Rachel Hore Books in Order

Rachel Hore has written 13 books, published between 2006 and 2023. The first book is The Dream House (2006) and the newest is The Hidden Years (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2006–2023
Pages on record
2,296 in 5 of 13 books

Rachel Hore is a British fiction writer, born in Surrey in 1960 and living in Norwich. Hore read Modern History at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and worked as an editor at HarperCollins before moving to Norfolk. She was in her mid-forties when she wrote a first novel, and she teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of East Anglia. Thirteen novels are catalogued, several of them Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers, from The Dream House (2006) to The Hidden Years (2023). Family secrets, mothers and daughters and English settings recur throughout.

How many Rachel Hore books are there?

Rachel Hore has 13 books, released between 2006 and 2023.

Rachel Hore Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Rachel Hore books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    The Dream House2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006
  2. 2
    The Memory Garden2007 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007432
  3. 3
    The Glass Painter's Daughter2009 · 450 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009450
  4. 4
    A Place of Secrets2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010
  5. 5
    A Gathering Storm2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011
  6. 6
    The Silent Tide2013 · 514 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013514
  7. 7
    A Week in Paris2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  8. 8
    The House on Bellevue Gardens2016 · 452 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016452
  9. 9
    Last Letter Home2018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018
  10. 10
    The Love Child2020 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020448
  11. 11
    A Beautiful Spy2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021
  12. 12
    One Moonlit Night2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  13. 13
    The Hidden Years2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023

Rachel Hore books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

13 books

13 Rachel Hore titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Rachel Hore books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 13 Rachel Hore books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Rachel Hore

Start with The Dream House (2006), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Rachel Hore book?

The Hidden Years (2023) is the newest Rachel Hore book released so far.

Is there a new Rachel Hore book coming?

No next Rachel Hore book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Rachel Hore at a glance

Paused
No new Rachel Hore title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Rachel Hore books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,296 pages across the 5 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 450 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Rachel Hore books, 6 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Rachel Hore books are about

9 of the 13 Rachel Hore books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family secrets is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.