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During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy's ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds--Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy--who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. "The Secret Keeper" explores longings and dreams, the lengths people go to fulfill them, and the consequences they can have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers told--in Morton's signature style--against a backdrop of events that changed the world.… (més)
2LZ: Kate Morton is an an amazing author and storyteller. The Forgotten Garden is one of my favorite novels, and I thought it was even better than The Secret Keeper.
jordantaylor: Both books begin with a young girl witnessing a crime of sorts that will powerfully affect her own life and the lives of her family members. Both books also are set in England during World War II.
BookshelfMonstrosity: The unearthing of secrets in different eras tie together these atmospheric historical novels, and while there are family secrets at the heart of both (as well as a rather suspicious death), Stone's Fall ties into more contemporary events as well.… (més)
1959: Durante una fiesta en la granja familiar en la campiña inglesa, Laurel Nicolson, una joven de dieciséis años, escapa a su casa del árbol y sueña con el futuro. Observa a un extraño acercándose por el camino y a su madre hablar con él. Antes de que termine la tarde, Laurel será testigo de un espantoso crimen que desafía todo lo que sabe sobre su familia y especialmente sobre su madre, Dorothy. 2011: Cincuenta años después, Laurel es una exitosa actriz que vive en Londres. Regresa a la granja familiar para el nonagésimo cumpleaños de Dorothy y se encontrará abrumada por las preguntas en las que no había pensado durante décadas. Desde la Inglaterra de antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta la década de los cincuenta y más allá, descubre la historia secreta de tres extraños de mundos muy diferentes.
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Rural England, a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, a summer's day at the start of the nineteen sixties.
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And by the time her mother got home, and sisters too--the television set in a box in the boot--she'd all but forgotten the kind man who'd come that day and helped her with the hens.
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy's ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds--Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy--who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. "The Secret Keeper" explores longings and dreams, the lengths people go to fulfill them, and the consequences they can have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers told--in Morton's signature style--against a backdrop of events that changed the world.
2011: Cincuenta años después, Laurel es una exitosa actriz que vive en Londres. Regresa a la granja familiar para el nonagésimo cumpleaños de Dorothy y se encontrará abrumada por las preguntas en las que no había pensado durante décadas.
Desde la Inglaterra de antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta la década de los cincuenta y más allá, descubre la historia secreta de tres extraños de mundos muy diferentes.