Helpful Score: 9
On an English farm in 1961 when Laurel is a teenager, and she witnesses a violent crime involving her mother Dorothy. The story jumps ahead to 2011, as Laurel and her siblings are gathering for Dorothy's 90th birthday.
The incident 50 years earlier has always haunted Laurel, and she knows with her mother's failing health, time is short to find out why it happened. From there, the story takes readers back and forth between 1941 London during the Blitz when Dorothy and her beau Jimmy meet Vivian, and 2011 as Laurel searches for clues about her mother's past.
Not only was this book a gripping mystery, it was also compelling historical fiction, painting a vivid picture of life in WWII London as bombs were dropped on the city.
Heartrending!
Mmmmm, what can one really say about Kate Morton??? She is a gifted writer that will leave you wanting to know her characters personally: as a friend, neighbor or part of the story line somehow. I have all of her books and all are very different in nature, however, The Secret Keeper is by far her greatest achievement. I read this some 475 page book in 2 days. Preordered in May and just recieved my copy on the 18th of Oct. Couldn't put it down once I started, as is the case with all her books, but this one had been thought about since the preorder. I was so caught off guard with the ending. I did not see that coming. Kate Morton's books are ones that I buy as soon as possible, she is one of the few writers that I purchase right away. You will love this book just don't wait too long to read it. My copy sits in my personal library along with her sisters (and where there were 3 are now 4)...
The incident 50 years earlier has always haunted Laurel, and she knows with her mother's failing health, time is short to find out why it happened. From there, the story takes readers back and forth between 1941 London during the Blitz when Dorothy and her beau Jimmy meet Vivian, and 2011 as Laurel searches for clues about her mother's past.
Not only was this book a gripping mystery, it was also compelling historical fiction, painting a vivid picture of life in WWII London as bombs were dropped on the city.
Heartrending!
Mmmmm, what can one really say about Kate Morton??? She is a gifted writer that will leave you wanting to know her characters personally: as a friend, neighbor or part of the story line somehow. I have all of her books and all are very different in nature, however, The Secret Keeper is by far her greatest achievement. I read this some 475 page book in 2 days. Preordered in May and just recieved my copy on the 18th of Oct. Couldn't put it down once I started, as is the case with all her books, but this one had been thought about since the preorder. I was so caught off guard with the ending. I did not see that coming. Kate Morton's books are ones that I buy as soon as possible, she is one of the few writers that I purchase right away. You will love this book just don't wait too long to read it. My copy sits in my personal library along with her sisters (and where there were 3 are now 4)...
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