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.