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The Secret Keeper

By: Kate Morton
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
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England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.

Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue.

The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting, and deception told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

©2012 Kate Morton (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction England Mystery
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would recommend this with reservations. I enjoyed the story but I had many problems with the narrator.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the way that although it was set in different time zones it was always easy to follow. The various twists and turns in the story kept me eager to continue even though narrator made me feel like giving up.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Caroline Lee?

I didn't enjoy Caroline Lee's narration. Although she has a nice voice I found her accents very difficult to listen to. Not only were they difficult to place in any particular part of the country but they were inconsistent.

Could you see The Secret Keeper being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

Possibly but I think it might be confusing.

Any additional comments?

I know Kate Morton is Australian but because the book was set in England it really needed English accents.

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Wonderful story as always by this author and beautifully read! Excellent story which has an amazing twist at the end which is both enlightening and gives you a feeling of warmth. I enjoyed each chapter! Beautiful!

Superb

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Such a beautiful story. So many twist and turns. The thing that bugged me was the narrator, she should have picked an accent and stuck with it. Other that that brilliant

Loved

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I really enjoyed this story, but the narrators accents are terrible, even changing accents on the same characters, making it hard to tell who's speaking! I should have paid heed to others mention of the narration! plus now I've seen it is available by another narrator. but the actual story really is wonderful.

A lovely story - but!

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Good story, but it took an awful long time to get the conclusion. It was a bit of an effort to pick it up and continue as it was so long. And the narrator was awful.

Very long winded

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