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Title: The Secret Keeper

Author: Kate Morton

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's 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 Dorothys 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.

Members Reviews:

The Narrator ruined it for me!

I have read several Kate Morton books and have always really enjoyed them. However, the narrator on this book has completely ruined it for me. At first her attempt at accents was mildly annoying in trying to guess what the dialect was suppose to be, but by chapter two the constant change in various unrecognisable accents was totally offputting to the story. Sorry Kate, I'm sure your story is as good as always, but I just cannot listen to any more. Audible, please, please, make sure your narrator either just reads the story in their own voice, or make sure they can pull off a reasonable accent they are attempting!.

What a shame

Good story I love Kate Morton, however Caroline Lee ruined my enjoyment with her strange accents if she had just read the book it would of been fine. I cant believe that this version has been published by audible her accents are almost comical in places and not very consistent.What a shame as it is a good story.

Good story, not so well narrated...

I enjoyed this book, as I have enjoyed all Kate Morton's books that I've read or listened to. However, it is unfortunate that the narrator seems to have considerable difficulty in keeping up accents. Strangely, she has chosen not only to put on accents when speaking for the characters, but even when just narrating... I can't quite tell whether she was attempting cockney, Irish or a midlands accent. They all seemed to be mixed together, with Australian overtones...

If you've not read or heard any Kate Morton books before, this one isn't as good as some of her others, but is still worth a read. I do like the way she mixes time lines, without it becoming confusing. Overall I enjoyed it.

I have to agree...

Reluctantly, I have to agree with other reviewers about the narration. I wish I had read this book instead of listening to it. My low score relates to the listening experience - I would give the book itself 4 stars.

Disappointing

I do not often go into print over such matters, and I do not often download an audio book that I CANNOT listen too. However I feel compelled to comment on the dreadful narration of this novel by Caroline Lee.