The Secret Keeper

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Secret Keeper
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kate Morton
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:592
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781743317464
ClassificationsDewey:A823.00
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Allen & Unwin
Imprint Allen & Unwin
Publication Date 30 October 2013
Publication Country Australia

Description

1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything. 2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined. Shifting between the 1930s, the 1960s and the present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, theatre and thievery, murder and enduring love.

Author Biography

Kate Morton is the author of The Shifting Fog, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours.