The Secret Keeper
Ratings16
Average rating4.3
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Ratings16
Average rating4.3
1961: On a summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on, 16-year-old Laurel hides out in her 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.
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I have been a big Kate Morton fan since reading The Forgotten Garden and despite a dip in form in The Distant Hours she is definitely back to her best with The Secret Keeper.
From the first chapter it starts with a bang when Laurel Nicolson witnesses her mother Dorothy violently stab a man who comes to their quiet countryside home one summers afternoon. For years she has lived with what she saw without understanding why her mother would do such a thing but as she prepares for her mother's 90th birthday many years later she begins to be drawn into the mystery even further.
Jumping between present day and London in the second world war we see the story through the eyes of Laurel, her mother Dorothy during the war and find out about the mysterious relationship between Dorothy and her friend Vivien. Twisting and turning from the start the writing is wonderful. The story is gripping and beautifully evocative of war time London. Just when you think you've got the ending all figured out it twists and turns again.
A brilliant book, I was reading it whilst on holiday in busy Blackpool and found that I couldn't wait to keep going back to reading it, snatching moments in the car or a quick 5 minutes here and there to keep reading so gripping was the story. Very much recommended.
Amazing book. For a book so heavy on character, it's astonishing how many major plot twists there are. What a complex, beautiful, intelligent, piece of art.
So... I finished this book... And oh my god. I can't even describe how much I loved it. It was the perfect book for me. I cried, I laughed, I smiled... I cried again. This book destroyed me, officially.
