Kate Morton - The Secret Keeper

1959 England. Laurel Nicolson is sixteen years old, dreaming alone in herchildhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green AcresFarm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observesher mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime. Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living inLondon. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy's ninetieth birthday and decidesto find out the truth about the events of that summer day. One photograph, ofher 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 tofulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story oflovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting and deception told against abackdrop of events that changed the world.