The reason I picked up this book was only because
my uncle recommended it, saying it was very well
written. Though I took a long time to get around to
reading it, once I began I found that Shirley Eskapa
is, indeed, a remarkable writer. The very first
sentence reels you in like the classic hook that
writing guides keep telling you about.
The entire story is written very simply and is yet
very very intriguing and strangely complicated.
It starts out with Nigel, a very successful English
banker in Geneva, leaving his attractive wife of
twenty years for a younger and more exciting
German mistress. His wife returns to England, but
leaves her young son behind. She believes that
teenage boys can have a better upbringing with
their fathers. There is, also, an underlying motive
to this, and that is that she is determined to get
her husband back.
The Secret Keeper is more than just a story. It overlaps on a study of the minds of
the husband, the wife, the mistress and the children involved. It's written subtly,
yet everything is very clear and believable. The characters take up a life of their own.
One reason to pick up this book would be for the way the story has been told. The
story may appear ordinary but once you begin, you begin to realize that the story is
anything but ordinary. The outcome is amazing. This book will not disappoint easily.
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