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'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. This book 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.' Libraries Australia.

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      Atria Books ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: 484p.
      ISBN: 9781439152805 (hardcover)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 582p.
      ISBN: 9781742374376 (hbk.) :
    • London,
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      England,
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      Pan ,
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      Extent: 602p.p.
      ISBN: 9780330477598, 0330477595
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Washington Square Press ,
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      Extent: 484p.p.
      ISBN: 1439152810, 9781439152812
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2016 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 592p.
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      • Published April 2016
      ISBN: 9781760292942
Alternative title: La scène des souvenirs
Language: French
    • Paris,
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      France,
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      Presses de la Cité ,
      2013 .
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      Extent: 573p.
      ISBN: 9782258081888 (paperback)

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

To and Fro through the Decades Daphne Guinness , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 January 2013; (p. 28)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
[Review] The Secret Keeper : A Novel Sue Clancy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 57 no. 1 2013; (p. 33)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
Winning Words Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27-28 July 2013; (p. 4-5)
Success No Secret Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 May 2013; (p. 27)
TBR : Inside the List Gregory Cowles , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 4 November 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
History Finds a Strong Voice Fran Metcalf , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 November 2012; (p. 21)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
Secrets Told with Exquisite Timing Sue Green , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 November 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
Right Formula No Secret Sophie Kilmartin , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 November 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
Untitled Elisa Black , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 November 2012; (p. 34)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
TBR : Inside the List Gregory Cowles , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 4 November 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of The Secret Keeper : A Novel Kate Morton , 2012 single work novel
Away with Words Phil Brown , 2012 single work biography
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 28 November - 4 December no. 910 2012; (p. 10-11)
Success No Secret Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 May 2013; (p. 27)
Winning Words Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27-28 July 2013; (p. 4-5)
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