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This Secret We're Keeping

By: Rebecca Done
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Oliver Chris
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of This Secret We're Keeping by Rebecca Done, read by Kristin Atherton and Oliver Chris.


A pupil and a teacher. Is it ever right to break the rules?

Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley.

After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment.

Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns to Norfolk, with a new identity and a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together.

With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?

From debut author Rebecca Done, This Secret We're Keeping is a powerful and provocative novel about the ties which can keep us together - or tear us apart.

 Contemporary Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romantic Suspense Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely
This is no conventional love story. Great stuff
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Absolutely loved this book and the narrators, will definitely be listening to this book again!

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This book tugs at the heartstrings and makes you question what you think is right. I have read/listened to it 3 times, and it has moved me to tears each time.

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