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The Secret Keeper

By: Kate Morton
Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
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1961. On a sweltering summer’s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, 16-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house, dreaming of 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 tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds – Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy – who are thrown together in wartime London and whose lives are fiercely and fatefully entwined.

©2012 Kate Morton (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

'A gripping tale of love and betrayal.' (Good Housekeeping)
'Morton is masterful at controlling a story's flow and tension.' (Publishers Weekly)

'Morton has obvious star power.... Her novels are Australia’s most successful exports since Colleen McCullough’s “Thorn Birds” stormed the world in 1977.' (The New York Times Book Review)
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Loved the twists and turns of this book. Well narrated and the characters really came to life. Another great book by this author.

Enjoyable listen

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Brilliant storyline with well crafted characters throughout. Amazing twist at the end and beautiful ending. I love the way that Kate Norton writes. I thought the narrator did well but do agree with some other comments on the pace - I worked out fairly early on that if you put it at 1.2x speed, it is much more realistic to that of a normal narration. I wonder if it somehow got slowed down in the post-production process?! All in all a brilliant, brilliant book, thoroughly recommend!

Wonderful story with even better plot twist to culminate

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I loved the character Laurel, the storyline twists of the book were so intriguing. Dreamer Dorothy was believable as was the war time feel throughout the book. The edgy deference, the mean spiritedness, aspects of the times of great stress. I did wonder why though, given the pluckiness of spirit of the main protagonist, she was allowed to be a victim.
Looking forward to listening to more from this author

The flow of the narrative - Great Story

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which was spiked slightly but the overly slow and pausey narration - but this was overcome but speeding it up to 1.2x speed.

Another cracker from Kate Morton

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Well performed. Took me a while to get into the story but the end revealed a cleverly set up explanation of the mystery!

Slow start but gripping end!

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