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St. Martin's Press
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Featuring: Antonie Rey; Melanie
318 pages
ISBN: 0312593317
EAN: 9780312593315
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of
the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarah’s Key,
plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the
power of a past secret to change everything in the present. It all began with a simple seaside vacation, a brother and
sister recapturing their childhood. Antoine Rey thought
he had the perfect surprise for his sister Mélanie’s
birthday: a weekend by the sea at Noirmoutier Island,
where the pair spent many happy childhood summers playing
on the beach. It had been too long, Antoine thought,
since they’d returned to the island—over thirty years,
since their mother died and the family holidays ceased.
But the island’s haunting beauty triggers more than happy
memories; it reminds Mélanie of something unexpected and
deeply disturbing about their last island summer. When,
on the drive home to Paris, she finally summons the
courage to reveal what she knows to Antoine, her emotions
overcome her and she loses control of the car. Recovering from the accident in a nearby hospital, Mélanie
tries to recall what caused her to crash. Antoine
encounters an unexpected ally: sexy, streetwise Angèle, a
mortician who will teach him new meanings for the words
life, love and death. Suddenly, however, the past comes
swinging back at both siblings, burdened with a dark truth
about their mother, Clarisse. Trapped in the wake of a shocking family secret shrouded
by taboo, Antoine must confront his past and also his
troubled relationships with his own children. How well
does he really know his mother, his children, even
himself? Suddenly fragile on all fronts as a son, a
husband, a brother and a father, Antoine Rey will learn
the truth about his family and himself the hard way. By
turns thrilling, seductive and destructive, with a
lingering effect that is bittersweet and redeeming, A
Secret Kept is the story of a modern family, the invisible
ties that hold it together, and the impact it has
throughout life.
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