How To Keep A Secret: A fantastic and brilliant feel-good summer read that you won’t want to end!

How To Keep A Secret: A fantastic and brilliant feel-good summer read that you won’t want to end!
Sarah Morgan

If you enjoyed How to Keep a Secret, don’t miss Sarah Morgan’s next wonderful novel, The Christmas Sisters. Out now!** Readers are loving How to Keep a Secret! **‘A delightful read’‘You feel every emotion in this beautiful story’‘Superb’‘I loved this evocative, romantic and sparkly book’This summer one family will discover that together, they can do anything.Matriarch Nancy knows she hasn't been the best mother but how can she ever tell her daughters the reason why? Lauren and Jenna are as close as two sisters can be and they made a pact years ago to keep a devastating secret from their mother – but is it time to come clean? Lauren's teenage daughter Mackenzie masks her own pain by keeping her mother at a distance. Her mother, aunt and grandmother keep trying to reach her but will it take a stranger to show her the true meaning of family?When life changes in an instant, the Stewart women are thrown together for a summer and suddenly they must relearn how to be a family. And whilst unravelling their secrets might be their biggest challenge, it could also be their finest moment . . .

SARAH MORGAN lives near London with her husband and two sons. An international bestseller, her books have been translated into more than 30 languages and she has sold over 15 million copies. For more about Sarah visit her website www.sarahmorgan.com (http://www.sarahmorgan.com), and sign up to her newsletter. She loves to connect with readers on Facebook (www.facebook.com/AuthorSarahMorgan (http://www.facebook.com/AuthorSarahMorgan)), Twitter (@SarahMorgan_ (http://twitter.com/@SarahMorgan_)) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/sarahmorganwrites (http://www.instagram.com/sarahmorganwrites))

Also by Sarah Morgan (#ulink_460359c3-df49-5802-9bf2-fa8e5d9cd4db)

Snow Crystal series

Sleigh Bells in the Snow

Suddenly Last Summer

Maybe This Christmas

Puffin Island series

First Time in Forever

Some Kind of Wonderful

Christmas Ever After

From Manhattan with Love series

Sleepless in Manhattan

Sunset in Central Park

Miracle on 5th Avenue

New York, Actually

Holiday in the Hamptons

Moonlight Over Manhattan

Copyright (#ulink_41d0c155-d068-5aa1-9cc3-10ef79d9f64e)

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

Copyright © Sarah Morgan 2018

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Ebook Edition © June 2018 ISBN: 9781474070690

Dear Reader (#ulink_bed886b1-4f19-5b11-863e-e9801fddb48a)

How To Keep A Secret is an exciting new direction for me. I’ve always written about relationships, but previously my main focus has been on the romance between the two central characters.

I wanted to broaden that to include the relationship between sisters, friends, mother and child, grandparent and grandchild. I wanted to create more complex, layered characters and to explore them in more depth.

This book has interwoven story lines, all of them connected, and tracks the shifting nature of relationships within one family. There is still romance, but also an exploration of broader themes and a cast of multi-generational characters.

Unlike my previous books, this story won’t be part of a series and I hope readers will enjoy having the whole reading experience in one book.

Being able to write something a little different has been satisfying and exciting for me. I can’t wait to hear what readers think.

Thank you for reading.

Sarah

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For my sister (from whom I have no secrets!)

If I could have chosen my sister, I would have chosen you.

For there is no friend like a sister

In calm or stormy weather;

To cheer one on the tedious way,

To fetch one if one goes astray,

To lift one if one totters down,

To strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

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