As a rule, I love Kate Morton books. Her stories always hold my interest, have endearing characters and make me work to solve the mystery from the past involving one of those characters that is always a mainstay of her works. This book was no different and I enjoyed it very much.
The Secret Keeper takes place in the early sixties with Laurel as a teenager and Laurel 50 years later as a grown woman, famous character actress and daughter faced with the fact that her mother is dying. She is the eldest of the five children in her family and the only one to witness a murder committed by her mother many years before. The story they told to the police at the time, was not quite as it happened, and as her mother Dorothy's mind begins to go, things are said that bring it all back to Laurel. It just does not seem to fit the woman they all knew as a loving and attentive mother for all of their growing-up years. With time running out, Laurel knows she must put together the pieces and find out what really happened that day and what things in her mother's past led to her stabbing a man who had called her by name.
In stories told by those Laurel interviews and actual scenes from Dorothy's past, we put together just what happened to Dorothy, Jimmy and Vivian in the wartime London of 1941. Part of the story figured out easily, but there were twists that kept me wondering to nearly the end.
As the eldest of six children myself, this book was a reminder of how we each have our place in a family, and how little we may actually know about our parents, our siblings, and ourselves.
Another enjoyable read from one of my favorite authors.
The Secret Keeper takes place in the early sixties with Laurel as a teenager and Laurel 50 years later as a grown woman, famous character actress and daughter faced with the fact that her mother is dying. She is the eldest of the five children in her family and the only one to witness a murder committed by her mother many years before. The story they told to the police at the time, was not quite as it happened, and as her mother Dorothy's mind begins to go, things are said that bring it all back to Laurel. It just does not seem to fit the woman they all knew as a loving and attentive mother for all of their growing-up years. With time running out, Laurel knows she must put together the pieces and find out what really happened that day and what things in her mother's past led to her stabbing a man who had called her by name.
In stories told by those Laurel interviews and actual scenes from Dorothy's past, we put together just what happened to Dorothy, Jimmy and Vivian in the wartime London of 1941. Part of the story figured out easily, but there were twists that kept me wondering to nearly the end.
As the eldest of six children myself, this book was a reminder of how we each have our place in a family, and how little we may actually know about our parents, our siblings, and ourselves.
Another enjoyable read from one of my favorite authors.
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