Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 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. 582 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781742374376. Inventory No: 266317.. 9781742374376

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From the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours , The Forgotten Garden , and The House at Riverton , a spellbinding novel of family secrets, murder, and enduring love. During a picnic at her familyâÈçs farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime, a crime that challenges everything she knows about her adored mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel and her sisters are meeting at the farm to celebrate DorothyâÈçs ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this is her last chance to discover the truth about that long-ago day, Laurel searches for answers that can only be found in DorothyâÈçs past. Clue by clue, she traces a secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn LondonâÈ'Dorothy, Vivien, and JimmyâÈ'whose lives are forever after entwined. A gripping story of deception and passion, The Secret Keeper will keep you enthralled to the last page.

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Bookseller: leura books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 266317
Title: The Secret Keeper
Author: Kate Morton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1742374379
ISBN 13: 9781742374376
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place of Publication: Australia
Date Published: 2012
Keywords: BZDB43 Fiction; Fiction; Unbranded EAN: 9781742374376 Kate Morton The Secret Keeper

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