Secret Keeper

English

ISBN: 1439152802

EAN: 9781439152805

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical/Fiction / Sagas/Fiction / Historical/Fiction / War & Military/

Publisher: Atria Books

Release Date: 10/12/2012

Synopsis: The new novel from the New York Timesand internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours is a spellbinding mix of mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothys ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worldsDorothy, Vivien, and Jimmywho meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. The Secret Keeperexplores longings and dreams, the lengths people go to fulfill them, and the consequences they can have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers toldin Mortons signature styleagainst a backdrop of events that changed the world.

Secret Keeper

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.4 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 22.68 oz

Pages: 496