the lake house kate morton review new york times

I was not compensated in any other way, nor told how to rate or review this product.The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generationsĪdelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery.

If you love gorgeous historical fiction and digging into a good story, The Secret Keeper is sure to please.ĭisclosure: I received a Netgalley copy. I read The House at Riverton which I thoroughly enjoyed and I have The Forgotten Garden on my bookshelf which I hope to read too. Well-written with vivid characters and a secret that pulls the reader through the whole story, The Secret Keeper is one of those books to be savored as it comes to its stunning conclusion. Sometimes I felt like the scenes with Laurel dragged a little.īut this is a minor criticism because reading this book was such a pleasure. For this reason, the timeline of the 30s was more interesting to me than that of the present-day. She went on to become a successful actress as she had dreamed of doing, but besides that, we don't really get to know Laurel very well. We don't really get the emotional understanding of what witnessing that act did to Laurel's psyche. The author takes her time to build each scene, revolving mainly around two women, Dorothy (Laurel's mother) and Vivien, her friend from the past.Īlthough it's Laurel who is trying to uncover the mystery of her family's past, I did question why she never did so before.

The story moves back and forth between the 60s, 30s, and present day. As a reader, that one scene makes us wonder why the character did what she did, and the whole story is based on Laurel trying to uncover the mystery, the reason for that one violent act. Sixteen-year-old Laurel witnesses a shocking scene one hot summer day. And just when you think you knew all there was to know about the secret, there's a twist at the end you didn't see coming. Every character has its time, place, and setting in the novel with detailed descriptions that may seem at times excessive or superfluous but that come full circle by the end of the novel.

The lake house kate morton review new york times