The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

'The Secret Keeper' by Kate Morton

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, murder and enduring love.

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I loved the way this book jumped from present day to the past. It keeps you guessing all the way to the end, I couldn't wait to finish the book. I wanted to know more all the way through - wanted to know all about Dolly and Vivien and was dying to know how the girl we were reading about in wartime London came to kill a man in her own garden almost 20 years later. How a loving caring mother could kill a man for what seemed to her daughter Laurel who had witnessed the killing - a senseless death. Laurel has kept the killing a secret from everyone - its now 2011 and she wants to find out why her mother would kill for what seemed no reason. The ending had a fantastic twist that almost took my breath away. Very well written, I could not put the book down.

Well worth reading, would highly recommend.

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