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Keeping Secrets

โœ Scribed by Gee, Sue


Book ID
109016068
Publisher
Pan Macmillan UK
Tongue
English
Weight
198 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781447234357

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โœฆ Synopsis


Keeping Secrets is the absorbing story of two very different sisters: of their complex relationships with each other, with the men they love, and with their children.

Hilda is clever, purposeful, self contained, a woman whose ordered life is focused on her teaching career, who lives alone and who, until she meets Stephen, a married man, has successfully kept emotion at a distance. In contrast, her younger sister Alice is someone whose feelings have always threatened to overwhelm her. She has always felt in Hilda's shadow, and her uncertainty and insecurity have receded only with the love of her husband, Tony, and the birth of her children. When she discovers that Hilda has decided to have Stephen's child she feels her territory is being invaded, and all her anxieties resurface.

But as the birth of her baby draws near, Hilda's own problems emerge. She comes to realise that there are limits to her self-sufficiency, and that her relationship...


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