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Simon and Schuster
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Featuring: Laurel Nicolson
496 pages
ISBN: 1439152802
EAN: 9781439152805
Kindle: B007EECSFA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding new 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. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. 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, Dorothyβher vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress living in London. The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothyβs ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothyβs past. Dorothyβs story takes the reader from preβWWII England through the blitz, to the β60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worldsβDorothy, Vivien, and Jimmyβwho meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes bring. It is an unforgettable story of lovers and friends, deception and passion that is toldβin Mortonβs signature styleβagainst a backdrop of events that changed the world.
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