From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding novel filled with mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love.
During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. But before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothyâher vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother.
Now, fifty years later, the family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothyâs ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothyâs past.
Dorothyâs story takes the reader from preâWWII England through the blitz, to the â60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. Author Kate Morton, who âexcels at creating absorbing mysteryâ (People), explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes have.
Richly detailed, The Secret Keeper is an enthralling tale of lovers and friends, deception and passion, told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- 20th Century
- World War II
- 20th Century
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Author : Morton, Kate
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2013-07-16
Number Of Pages : 496
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1439152810
ISBN-13 : 9781439152812
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.3 in x 8.2 in
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