When three generations of women are brought together by crisis, they learn over the course of one hot summer the power of family to support, nourish and surpriseLauren has the perfect life…if she ignores the fact it’s a fragile house of cards, and that her daughter Mack has just had a teenage personality transplant.Jenna is desperate to start a family with her husband, but it’s… Just. Not. … Just. Not. Happening. Her heart is breaking, but she’s determined to keep her trademark smile on her face.Nancy knows she hasn’t been the best mother, but how can she ever tell Lauren and Jenna the reason why?Then life changes in an instant, and Lauren, Mack, Jenna and Nancy are thrown together for a summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Somehow, these very different women must relearn how to be a family. And while unraveling their secrets might be their biggest challege, the rewards could be infinite…Heartwarming and fresh, Sarah Morgan’s brilliant new novel is a witty and deeply uplifting look at the power of a family of women.
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Ok read. A little repetitive and predictable.
This is a family story of four women and the secrets they have been keeping and how the revelations change their lives. First is Lauren whose husband died and left her mired in a financial disaster and second is her daughter Mack who has just found out that her father is not her biological father. Third is Jenna who desperate to have a baby and fourth is Nancy, mother of Lauren and Jenna, who has kept a secret from her daughter for years. When Lauren and Mack move from London back to Martha’s Vineyard to stay with Nancy to recover from their loss and plan what to do next, the secrets begin to be revealed and lead to an opportunity for the four of them to reclaim their family. This was a wonderful story and I highly recommend it.
Loved this book, from the flawed characters that you still come to love, to the twists and turns. Great read.
Don’t like these formula books. it could have been good, but the dialogue was totally fake.
I enjoyed this book I missed all the characters when it was over I saw people I knew in its storie
Great book
This was an easy light read with a good story line and likable characters. However, at times felt contrived and a little too happy ending ish, not a waste of time but not really deeply engaging. I would put it in the chick lit or beach read category and great for that occasional light read. A little too light for me personally.
I loved this women’s fiction story…so well written, with a cast of characters I loved!
WOW. I’m in awe with deep admiration towards Sarah Morgan’s ability to tell a heartfelt story, even more so than before, if that is even possible.
How To Keep A Secret was an emotional journey of four women of three generations through lives battles on stormy seas.
From grief, anger, betrayal, and devastation, to joy, love, passion, and the sense of accomplishment I took each step with the ladies, feeling the range of emotions, living through the heartbreak to finding peace and accepting the new normal while cheering them on and loving each moment of it. I was completely lost in the world the author had created, wanting to linger there as long as possible while needing to inhale the tale as fast as I could, to find that satisfying, gratifying, exhilarating point where the life for that one moment is as perfect as it can be, where the end departed me from the tale that had brought so much more to me than I dared to expect.
While the story as a whole is a very entertaining and beautiful tale of women, family, sisters, mothers, and daughters, love, and the fragility of life, it also had me reflecting those relationships in my own life, seeing things from the different point of view, and suddenly growing and maturing right along the characters. What a beautiful, unexpected gift that turned out to be.
Each of the four women in the tale gets their chance to tell part of the story from their own point of view. There is the turbulence of a teenager, the confusion, the anger, the need to be accepted while worried about being too much and abandoned. There is the love, and frustration, of that teenager’s parents, how to survive the gusty waters. There are the sisters who have always been there for each other, yet seems to have kept some substantial secrets. There are the three marriages, their strengths, their weaknesses, and their fails, and jubilees. There are the mother-daughter relationships that never seemed to work yet suddenly gets a new point of view, new strength, when looked from the different angle, with honest eyes. And there is the romance, the tangible, palpable feelings between couples who truly are soulmates, who get each other, understand each other, and accept the shortcomings and cherish the endearing qualities. There are many characters, with different kinds of relationships, yet never for a minute was there any confusion or overwhelm to keep everything in order.
How To Keep A Secret, while vastly entertaining, thought life-lessons and sorted out all possible kinds of relationships one can face through life. It brought me smiles and sighs of contentment, had me tear up, even broke my heart a bit, but it also brought lots of loving healing, new possibilities, and refreshingly realistic solutions to lives many problems. A book that makes you feel like you have learned valuable lessons and a new way to look at some things in life, that kind stories are rare gifts, priceless, precious stories, that you want to spread the word about, cherish them for days to come.
A must-read, unputdownable story that will touch your heart and mind
~ Five Spoons
Oh my Wow! This was simply wonderful. The drama, the secrets, the emotions, the heart. This whole story was amazing. It definitely was a bit different from Sarah Morgan’s previous works. I think this falls more under the women’s fiction category than a strict romance, even though there are some romantic relationships in this book. How to Keep a Secret follows a family of four women and how they managed to make their relationships with each other stronger. And how they dealt with life and some of the curveballs they were thrown. You will need a tissue box handy when you read this book but even when you’re crying you’ll still love every moment of this story. Such a great story. I don’t know what else to add except this is a must read for sure.