The Resource The secret keeper : a novel, Kate Morton
The secret keeper : a novel, Kate Morton
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The item The secret keeper : a novel, Kate Morton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The secret keeper : a novel
- Title
- The secret keeper
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Morton
- Subject
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- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Actresses -- England -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueExtortion
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueFamily secrets
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- Historical fiction
- trueIntelligence officers
- trueJealousy in men
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueRevenge
- trueTeenage murder witnesses
- trueActors and actresses
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Award
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- Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year, 2013.
- Queensland Literary Awards, Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year, 2013.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10141293
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morton, Kate
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9619.4.M74
- LC item number
- S43 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Family secrets
- Life change events
- Actresses
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The secret keeper : a novel, Kate Morton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 484 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439152805
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2012026175
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- System control number
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- 779266410
- (OCoLC)779266410
- Label
- The secret keeper : a novel, Kate Morton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 484 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439152805
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2012026175
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- System control number
-
- 779266410
- (OCoLC)779266410
Subject
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Actresses -- England -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueExtortion
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueFamily secrets
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- Historical fiction
- trueIntelligence officers
- trueJealousy in men
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- trueRevenge
- trueTeenage murder witnesses
- trueActors and actresses
Genre
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- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: General Fiction Book of the Year
- trueQueensland Literary Awards: People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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