1961: On a sweltering summer's day while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy a move to London & the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything. 2011: Now a much-loved actress Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories & the mystery of what she saw that day she returns to her family home & begins to piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds
- Dorothy Vivien & Jimmy
- who are brought together by chance in wartime London & whose lives become fiercely & fatefully entwined. Shifting between the 1930s the 1960s & the present The Secret Keeper is a spellbinding story of mysteries & secrets murder & enduring love.