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The Secret Keeper

A Novel

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The Secret Keeper

By: Kate Morton
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
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England, 1959. Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.

Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue.

The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting and deception, told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

©2012 Kate Morton (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction England
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Caroline Lee: accent/dialects were not good. need more practice or leave out. story was good.

Secrets

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Lovely story of family and friendship, love and heartache with a clever twist! Loved every minute

Beautiful with a twist!

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Nice and easy. Romantic and well written and read. But simple in essence , I guessed what had happened early on (and that’s unlike me). Nevertheless. Great story. My mind was thrown to the dark war times easily.

Nice and easy. Sussed it out at the beginning

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This book was amazing! Complex and thoughtful and engaging. So clever in fact that I almost missed the last section because I thought everything had been wrapped up, just wonderful!

Simply captivating!

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I loved this story and all its twists and turns. And I loved the reader's voices too

A ripping yarn

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A great book with a very captivating story. The unexpected conclusion was well worth a listen.

Love it.

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Found the narration clumsy and annoying, The characters seemed to lose their substance in the process.

Liked the story but

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My first Kate Morton book, I absolutely loved it and,cannot wait to read another one🙂💖

Great Read

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Enjoyed the storyline and the twist was unexpected. A glimpse into wartime life and life for its civilians.

A wartime love

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Brilliant story - loved the plot, the ending, and the characters. Always enjoy Kate Morton’s writing - thank you

Loved the Ending

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