A review by carolyn0613
The Secrets We Keep by Stephanie Butland

3.0

Elizabeth and Mike are happily married in a small English village until tragedy strikes and Mike is drowned saving a teenaged girl. Elizabeth, overcome with grief, tries to make sense of life without Mike. Mike's mother, also grief stricken, deals with the death is a different way - Elizabeth is paralysed with grief but Mike's mother copes by getting on with her life. Elizabeth's grief is beautifully described and brought me close to tears at times. The story moves on and Elizabeth's grief becomes the backdrop to questions raised by the accident. This is a wonderful story, beautifully written and amazingly real people inhabiting the pages. It is very intense and at time almost claustrophobic. The story starts to fall into place about halfway through but is not disappointing in any way for being foreseeable at that point. I loved this book