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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Can You Keep a Secret?
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'How well do you really know the one you love? With her customary page-turning style and potent themes, this is Caroline Overington at her thought-provoking best.

'‘Why do some people decide to get married when everyone around them would seem to agree that marriage, at least for the two people in question, is a terrifically bad idea?'

'The year is 1999, and Lachlan Colbert – Colby – has the world at his feet. He's got a big job on Wall Street and a sleek bachelor pad in the heart of Manhattan.

'With money no object, he and his friends take a trip to Australia to see in the new millennium. And it's there, on a hired yacht sailing the Whitsundays, that he meets Caitlin.

'Caitlin Hourigan has got wild hair and torn shorts – and has barely ever left the small patch of Queensland where she grew up. But Colby is smitten and for Caitlin, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, a blissful future awaits – marriage, a big house, a beautiful little boy.

'But nothing is ever as perfect as it seems. And for Lachlan and Caitlin the nightmare is only just beginning…' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead' –Benjamin Franklin

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 361p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 September 2014
      ISBN: 9780857983596

Other Formats

  • Also large print.
  • Also braille.

Works about this Work

[Review] Can You Keep a Secret? Belinda Willis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 November 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Can You Keep a Secret? Caroline Overington , 2014 single work novel
[Review] Can You Keep a Secret? Belinda Willis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 November 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Can You Keep a Secret? Caroline Overington , 2014 single work novel
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  • Whitsunday area, Proserpine - Whitsunday area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,
  • 1999
  • 1999
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