{"id":12345,"date":"2011-07-14T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2011-07-11T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T18:13:07","slug":"a-secret-kept-by-tatina-de-rosnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/a-secret-kept-by-tatina-de-rosnay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Secret Kept by Tatina de Rosnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" \t http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2277044\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12421 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/secret-kept.jpg?resize=184%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bestselling author of <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2097159\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Sarah&#8217;s Key<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Tatina de Rosnay, has written another winner.\u00a0 <em><strong><a href=\" \t http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2277044\" target=\"_blank\">A Secret Kept<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>literally keeps the reader in suspense, wondering if the secret will ever be totally revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine takes his sister Melanie on a 40th birthday trip to\u00a0 Noirmoutier Island, a lovely place where they had spent several enjoyable summers as children. \u00a0 But something about the island also brings back troubling memories for Melanie.\u00a0 On the return trip home, just as Melanie is about to reveal her fears to Antoine, she loses control of the car.\u00a0 The book opens with Antoine waiting anxiously in a hospital waiting room, wondering if Melanie will even survive.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine finds himself confronting not only his past, but his present family relationships as well.\u00a0 Unhappy since his divorce just a year ago, he has difficulty communicating with his children and he has always felt distanced from his father.\u00a0 He senses the secret revolves around his mother, and he wonders about her sudden death so many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this book.\u00a0 The tension is kept sufficiently tight, and the character development, realistic.\u00a0 Plus, if you&#8217;re a francophile, you&#8217;ll appreciate some of the many French references! Incidentally, the author was recently named one of the top ten fiction writers in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bestselling author of Sarah&#8217;s Key, Tatina de Rosnay, has written another winner.\u00a0 A Secret Kept literally keeps the reader in suspense, wondering if the secret will ever be totally revealed. Antoine takes his sister Melanie on a 40th birthday trip to\u00a0 Noirmoutier Island, a lovely place where they had<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/a-secret-kept-by-tatina-de-rosnay\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[476,230,333,331],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-family-drama","tag-france","tag-mystery","tag-suspense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3d7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12467,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions\/12467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}