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The Secret

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From the author of the Kindle Number One bestseller The Letter comes a heartbreaking novel of tragedy, hope and second chances, set in England in 1976 and the present day, and in Australia. Readers who treasure the novels of Lesley Pearse and Susan Lewis will adore this author. It's the long hot summer of 1976 and the regulars of The Taverners pub in Manchester are preparing for a day trip to Blackpool. But after a horrific coach crash not all of the day trippers make it home. Forty years later and the consequences of that fateful day are still being felt by the families. But what if not all was as it seemed on that stretch of motorway and someone has been hiding a devastating secret...?

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The Letter, Kathryn's debut novel, was an eBook bestseller. Her second, The Secret, is just as gripping
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Author Kathryn Hughes
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 9 hours and 13 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781472240552
Format Audiobook
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Genre Family life fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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