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. "Ante el grave estado de salud de su madre, Dorothy, los hermanos Nicholson deciden reunirse para celebrar el que posiblemente sea su ̐ưultimo cumplea̐ưnos. La cercan̐ưia de su muerte no solo convocar̐ưa a los hermanos, sino que har̐ưa que ella se vea asaltada por un pasado que su familia desconoce Ser̐ưa Laurel, su hija mayor, quien le preguntar̐ưa sobre ese pasado, del que Dorothy solo ir̐ưa revelando algunos nombres y acontecimientos. Investigando, con la ayuda de su hermano Gerry, Laurel ir̐ưa reuniendo informaci̐ưon y descubrir̐ưa cu̐ưal es el misterio que celosamente ha escondido durante a̐ưnos, comprendiendo as̐ưi tambi̐ưen qu̐ưe sucedi̐ưo aquel d̐ưia de 1961 en que Laurel se ocultaba encima de un ̐ưarbol de su jard̐ưin."--Publisher.
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