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The secret keeper [sound recording] / Kate Morton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublication details: New York : Bolinda Audio ; Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio Audio [distributor], p2012.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 17 sound discs (20 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1743117094
  • 1743196164 (Library ed.)
  • 9781743117095
  • 9781743196168 (Library ed.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Read by Caroline Lee.Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Main Library Audiobook FICTION Morton Kat Available 33111007420561
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Laurel is a successful actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for her mother's ninetieth birthday and finds herself beset by questions she has not pondered for decades. The Secret Keeper is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

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Duration: 20:00:00.

Read by Caroline Lee.

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.

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