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Violence
Some
A murder witnessed in childhood; WWII violence in the historical sections
Language
Barely any
Literary prose; period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships in the wartime sections; restrained
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The weight of a secret kept for fifty years between parent and child; the mystery of what a parent was before they were your parent
What this book is about
Laurel Nicolson, now an actress in her sixties, is haunted by a memory from 1961: she watched her gentle mother Dolly kill a man. As Dolly lies dying, Laurel searches the past to understand what happened. Kate Morton's atmospheric mystery weaves between 1930s London and the present with her trademark richly drawn historical detail.
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