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The Kindle bestselling author returns with her second novel, The Secret - a beautiful, tearjerking novel which will be cherished by all those thousands of readers who lost their hearts to The Letter.

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´Riveting´ Lesley Pearse on The Letter. ´Gripping´ Good Housekeeping on The Secret.

From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter comes The Secret - a powerful, twisting novel that you won´t be able to put down.

Mary has been nursing a secret.

Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear.

Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother´s things, she realises the key to her son´s future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock...The Secret.

What readers are saying about the unputdownable stories of Kathryn Hughes:

´Get set to be hooked´

´A page-turner from the very beginning´

´This is one of the BEST BOOKS I have ever read´

´I cried buckets of tears reading it´

´A beautifully told, tragic tale´

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The Letter, Kathryn´s debut novel, was an eBook bestseller. Her second, The Secret, is just as gripping Good Housekeeping

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Hughes, Kathryn
Kathryn Hughes was born in Altrincham, near Manchester. After completing a secretarial course, Kathryn met her husband and they married in Canada. For twenty-nine years they ran a business together, raised two children and travelled when they could to places such as India, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Kathryn and her family now make their home in a village near Manchester.

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