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This Secret We're Keeping

By: Rebecca Done
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Oliver Chris
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of This Secret We're Keeping by Rebecca Done, read by Kristin Atherton and Oliver Chris.


A pupil and a teacher. Is it ever right to break the rules?

Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley.

After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment.

Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns to Norfolk, with a new identity and a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together.

With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?

From debut author Rebecca Done, This Secret We're Keeping is a powerful and provocative novel about the ties which can keep us together - or tear us apart.

 Contemporary Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romantic Suspense Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction

Critic reviews

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely
This is no conventional love story. Great stuff
All stars
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What did you like about this audiobook?

Some interesting moments.

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

No.

What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?

Story is rather slow, but the constant swallowing by the narrator was most off-putting.

Rather slow and lack lustre.

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Brilliant book! I hope there is a sequel, really need to know what happened - bit of a cliff hanger at the end 🥴

This Secret we’re keeping

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I really enjoyed this book...at times the story seem to drag on and felt a little tedious but overall, a shady subject with an insiders light.

Excellently narrated by Kristen Atherton!

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This was a really good book and one I’d been waiting to read for ages, over a year due to its length, trying to find time was difficult. But once I did
Start reading, I couldn’t put it down. Really good characters, some of which I disliked on principal, others when facts about them came to light later on. There was one part where I literally had a lump in my throat and almost started crying. So as not to give spoilers, I’ll just say the part at
the surgery. I nearly broke down! Really well narrated, I love Oliver Chris. But I found the end a little unsatisfactory, one of those endings where you’re left thinking well, then what? Some very tense moments, a lot of suspense and certainly issues which could be debated with controversy. My personal opinion is, once of age, what’s the problem?

Emotional reading

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An amazing book from start to finish with an ending that was so beautifully written.

Incredible

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