A review by portybelle
The Secret by Kathryn Hughes

3.0

I'm really torn about what I felt about this book. On the one hand I really was emotionally involved in the present day story of Beth and Michael and their little boy Jake who needed a kidney transplant. You could understand their desperation to find a donor and their search to find Beth's father in the hope he might be able to help. On the other hand, I felt the story in the past was a little simplistic. I'm not sure what it was about the characters but I didn't really feel much sympathy for many of them. I thought there were too many coincidences, not entirely believable. While I could understand some of the actions of Michael's Aunt Daisy, I felt that given the circumstances, she would have revealed her secrets earlier. It's not that I didn't enjoy the book. I did, just not as much as I enjoyed The Letter.

3.5*