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The Book of Secrets

de Elizabeth Joy Arnold

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:At once a captivating mystery, a love letter to classic literature, and a sharp-eyed examination of marriage, The Book of Secrets is a gripping novel of family, friendship, and the undeniable pull of the past. After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he�s returned to their childhood town of Redbridge, California�a place Chloe never wants to see again. Tending to their small bookstore while trying to reach Nate, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside his antique copy of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Written in a code that Nate and his sisters created as kids, the pages contain long-buried secrets from her and Nate�s past, and clues to why he went back to Redbridge after all these years. As Chloe struggles to decipher the notebook�s hidden messages, she revisits the seminal moments of their youth: the day she met the enigmatic Sinclair children, their increasingly dangerous games a magical escape from their troubled childhoods; the first time Nate kissed her, camped out on the beach like Robinson Crusoe; the elaborate plan she and Nate devised, inspired by Romeo and Juliet, to break away from from his oppressive father, and how the thwarted attempt upended their lives forever. As the reason for Nate�s absence comes to light, the truth will shatter everything Chloe knows�about her husband, his family, and herself. Praise for The Book of Secrets �An exquisite novel . . . The Book of Secrets is one of those reasons some of us live to read.��The Star-Ledger �Tender and transcendent, The Book of Secrets is about the truths we hide, the consequences we face, and the particular comfort we can only find in a good book. Elizabeth Joy Arnold has written a beautiful and haunting ode to the power of words, and how they shape our lives.��Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of The Peach Keeper �The Book of Secrets plunges the reader into the strange and intense world of the Sinclairs, a family bound and pulled apart by the forces of imagination and religious belief. Through the eyes of Chloe Tyler, trapped in this world since childhood, Arnold paints a fascinating picture of obsession and loss. The Book of Secrets offers a complex meditation on the elusive nature of truth and on the power of secrets.��Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House �This is the beautiful and heart-wrenching story about the secrets that can both hold a marriage together, and drive two people apart. Reading The Book of Secrets is like walking through a dark labyrinth: just when all hope is lost, you step out into sunshine.��Carla Buckley, author of Invisible *This eBook edition includes two complete classic works of literature that are referenced in The Book of Secrets: Shakespeare�s Romeo and Juliet* and Daniel Defoe�s Robinson Crusoe!** Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader�s Circle for author chats and more.… (més)

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Chloe and Nate have been married for over 20 years and have been friends for another decade prior to that. Chloe essentially grew up with Nate and his 2 sisters Grace and Cecelia. That's what makes the secrets they have kept from Chloe a little hard to swallow. Chloe has secrets of her own -- an affair and a tragedy early in her marriage to Nate that unfolds through flashbacks in the novel. The book is organized in chapters of famous book titles - Chloe and Nate own a bookstore and first bonded over stories in Nate's "fairy-tale life." However every fairy tale has a villain and that's Joel Sinclair, Nate's father. His fundamental religious fervour destroys his own family and has seriously damaged Nate and Chloe's. The author's portrayal of this religion doesn't entirely ring true, though, so that is a flaw in the story. Merging the past and the present in a meaningful and mysterious way make for a worthwhile read. All the book references and connections are interesting and intriguing and make for their own mystery -- definitely a plus. Hard to get behind any of the characters whole-heartedly, but still wanted to see what happened to them by the end. (

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CarrieWuj | Oct 24, 2020 |

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Really enjoyed this book...good storyline and enjoyed the writing of switching back and forth in time...a good read (

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Allie64 | Dec 28, 2013 |

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Though this book opened strong, it ultimately didn't maintain its early powerful hold on my imagination. I was intrigued by the childhood relationships outlined in the book, but was actually not shocked at all by the big twist- it was something I had speculated about chapters before. A good read, but not a great one. (

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ForeignCircus | Dec 5, 2013 |

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Overall, I liked The Book of Secrets. But I had the same experience a lot of readers have mentioned - I found the beginning of the book much more interesting than the last half or so. All the talk of classic children's lit really pulled me in, even though the books weren't all ones I treasure from my own childhood. I suppose if you've been a bookworm from the moment you picked up your first book, you just have to be attracted to a story built around such a kindred spirit. I was very taken with the young Chloe and intrigued by her relationship with the Sinclair family. Unfortunately, I found the grownup Chloe a little harder to empathize with and had a hard time keeping up interest as the later story unfolded. So, not a four-star book, but still an enjoyable read. (

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jlshall | Nov 21, 2013 |

I loved the beginning of this book. It promised interesting characters, secrets only partly revealed, and good writing, but I wondered, even in those first few pages, if that could all be sustained. For me, the answer is no.

The books switches in time between a married woman's current life and the child she had been not that many years before. We are told early on what terrible thing happened and who did it, but we don't know details.

“Maybe it is natural to want to be able to untangle the thoughts and reasoning of suicide bombers and serial killers, try to put yourself in their heads as if that could help you understand why. And when you finally realize you can't understand, you try to convince yourself there's nothing there.”

That explains to me better than most I've read why I am interested in people so violent. Also, if you knew someone did something so horrible as to be unforgivable, and then escaped the realization of that horror through dementia, would you remind him of it, tell him every day what he had done? Would I?

Despite all the good things about this book, it became too melodramatic for me, too clichéd, and that diminished my pleasure in it. For me, it was an enjoyable read but not a great one.

I was given an advance reader's copy of this novel for review. (

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:At once a captivating mystery, a love letter to classic literature, and a sharp-eyed examination of marriage, The Book of Secrets is a gripping novel of family, friendship, and the undeniable pull of the past.

After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he�s returned to their childhood town of Redbridge, California�a place Chloe never wants to see again.

Tending to their small bookstore while trying to reach Nate, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside his antique copy of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Written in a code that Nate and his sisters created as kids, the pages contain long-buried secrets from her and Nate�s past, and clues to why he went back to Redbridge after all these years. As Chloe struggles to decipher the notebook�s hidden messages, she revisits the seminal moments of their youth: the day she met the enigmatic Sinclair children, their increasingly dangerous games a magical escape from their troubled childhoods; the first time Nate kissed her, camped out on the beach like Robinson Crusoe; the elaborate plan she and Nate devised, inspired by Romeo and Juliet, to break away from from his oppressive father, and how the thwarted attempt upended their lives forever. As the reason for Nate�s absence comes to light, the truth will shatter everything Chloe knows�about her husband, his family, and herself.
Praise for The Book of Secrets

�An exquisite novel . . . The Book of Secrets is one of those reasons some of us live to read.��The Star-Ledger

�Tender and transcendent, The Book of Secrets is about the truths we hide, the consequences we face, and the particular comfort we can only find in a good book. Elizabeth Joy Arnold has written a beautiful and haunting ode to the power of words, and how they shape our lives.��Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of The Peach Keeper

�The Book of Secrets plunges the reader into the strange and intense world of the Sinclairs, a family bound and pulled apart by the forces of imagination and religious belief. Through the eyes of Chloe Tyler, trapped in this world since childhood, Arnold paints a fascinating picture of obsession and loss. The Book of Secrets offers a complex meditation on the elusive nature of truth and on the power of secrets.��Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House

�This is the beautiful and heart-wrenching story about the secrets that can both hold a marriage together, and drive two people apart. Reading The Book of Secrets is like walking through a dark labyrinth: just when all hope is lost, you step out into sunshine.��Carla Buckley, author of Invisible
This eBook edition includes two complete classic works of literature that are referenced in The Book of Secrets: Shakespeare�s Romeo and Juliet and Daniel Defoe�s Robinson Crusoe!

Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader�s Circle for author chats and more.

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