Book description
1959: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the
stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her
childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London,
and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic
afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that
changes everything. 2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself
overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery
of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to
piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly
different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together
by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and
fatefully entwined. Shifting between the 1930s, the 1950s and the
present, The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries and
secrets, theatre and thievery, murder and enduring love.
