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The Secret Keeper
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue.
The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting and, deception told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.
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- Lou L
- 16-11-20
Intriguing saga
A great story beautifully written.
I’m afraid, though, the narration was so inconsistent. The sample gave no indication of this. Changing voice & accent to represent different characters wasn’t very successful I’m sad to say. It did make listening quite frustrating in parts.... if the saga hadn’t been so very intriguing I think I’d have turned off.
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- Amanda
- 02-01-14
A cleverly crafted book
This is a very gripping tale of three women and keeps your attention all the way through , with a great ending. It flits from 1941 to the 1950s to 2011 to unfold a gripping story.
Unfortunately the narrator seems to have trouble with getting her accents right for the characters, who variously seem to slip into Geordie, welsh and cockney , with a splash of Australian accent thrown in. Apart from this, which somewhat spoiled my listening and made the story a little confusing, this is a great book that I found hard to stop listening to, and I am now going to listen to more of this author's books .
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- HMP
- 16-12-13
Interesting story idea
Where does The Secret Keeper rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is a good book worth listening to as it has many story twists and it comes quite high on my favourite listens list
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Secret Keeper?
The ending of the story is not what you expect from the start, and the family dynamics are really interesting
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- LARA
- 09-10-16
Food for thought
This amazing story allows the reader/listener to ask questions of their own parents lives.
Probably the best story ever written and given narration, with a thrilling twist at the end.
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- K. Ormiston
- 01-12-13
Kept me guessing
Would you consider the audio edition of The Secret Keeper to be better than the print version?
Haven't read it but really enjoyed listening.
What did you like best about this story?
The characters were believable and likeable - even when behaving 'badly'
Have you listened to any of Caroline Lee’s other performances? How does this one compare?
Not listened
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Yes, the interactions between mother and daughters as the book progressed. The tenderness with which they revised their opinion of her.
Any additional comments?
I had an inkling as to what had happened about mid way through the story but I only turned out to be partially right so this kept me guessing right until the end. The relationship between mothers and daughters fascinates me and in this story that between sibling too was very sensitively handled.
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- f tummey
- 02-02-17
Slow read
Really hard to get into. The narrators accent was very odd and hard to listen to. Have listened to books narrated by her before which were fine
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- JOANNE ROBINSON
- 26-05-22
Brilliant
Lovely story. A few surprises along the way. Easy to follow and very well read.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-08-22
Good but…..
Great story, narrater had a lovely voice, narration was fab, but she really couldn’t nail the accents….. which was a shame.
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- Amanda
- 23-12-12
A nice book
This was a long book but very enjoyable and nicely told. Easy to listen too. Although long it didn't seem so. I would recommend this to some one looking for something gentle to listen too with a good story with a twist.
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- Lorna
- 22-06-16
Great story shame about the accents
I've listened to Kate Morton books narrated by Caroline Lee before and quite liked her soft tone voice. But in this book she swings through accents with no logic or reason. Characters from Coventry have accents from Yorkshire to Irish with a touch of Welsh thrown in. They vary each time the characters speak and then penetrate the narrative for no good reason. It's really awful, incredibly distracting and impossible to tell who is speaking by the voice she uses.
I only kept going because the story was good enough to have gripped me. I needed to find out the solution to the mystery.
I love being read to and am an avid audiobook listener. But this is the first time the narrator has almost ruined the book.
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