The Secret Keeper
The Secret Keeper is the second book by Kate Morton that I have read, the first being The Forgotten Garden. They both involve weaving intertwined stories from the past and present into a sort of mystery, but with very human elements. I found them throughly enjoyable.
Some quotes:
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”
It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?
It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.