Book The Secret Keeper A Novel by Kate Morton Hardcover with Dust Jacket FIRST EDITION 2012 Author: Kate Morton Publisher: Atria Books Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Release Date: 2012 Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in Weight: 1 lb 5.5 oz No. of Pages: 484 Pages Manufactured: USA ISBN: 978-1439152805 Condition: Pre-Owned in Very Good Condition. Some wear and curling to the edges of the Dust Jacket covers, as well as a small vertical tear of about 0.25? at the top of the front Dust Jacket cover. Exterior spine has some wear, particularly to the edges. Interior is in Excellent Condition and structurally sound. Please see photographs for details as they are considered part of the description. SYNOPSIS: The new novel from the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours is a spellbinding mix of mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, and The House at Riverton, a spellbinding novel filled with mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy?her vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress living in London. The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothy?s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothy?s past. Dorothy?s story takes the reader from pre?WWII England through the blitz, to the ?60s and beyond. It is 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 and the unexpected consequences they sometimes bring. It is an unforgettable story of lovers and friends, deception and passion that is told?in Morton?s signature style?against a backdrop of events that changed the world. **Smoke Free Home**