Book 46 of my 2018 Reading Challenge
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Summary (via the book jacket)
During a picnic at her family's 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 Dorothy's 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 Dorothy's past. Clue by clue, She traces a secret history of three strangers rom vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn London - Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy - whose lives are forever after entwined.
A gripping story of deception and passion, The Secret Keeper will keep you enthralled to the last page.
My Opinion
I went into this with a tip from a review from my friend Laura to pay attention to the dates as the time jumps around.
It was a bit of a stretch how everything gets solved but it was a great story with some surprises along the way.
A Few Quotes from the Book
"...Laurel had heard it. And she's started harder at Ma's lovely, tired, familiar secretive face. Scouring it for answers. Answers she knew were there to be found. Because people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances."
"Laurel studied her mother's profile, wishing she had been a different sort of daughter, wishing there was more time, that she could go back and do it all again, not leave everything to the last and find herself sitting at her mother's hospital bed with so many blanks to fill."
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