Secrets from the past.

A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay, is a novel about secrets and the crushing cost of those secrets. Antoine, an unhappily divorced,forty something architect decides to take his sister Melanie on a vacation for her birthday. They go the the island they spent many happy summers as children until their mother died unexpectedly. Driving home Melanie turns to Antoine while she is driving to tell him something shocking she remembered about their mother-and drives off the road. She barely survives the accident and in the aftermath she and Antoine start remembering and investigating their mother's life. In the course of a few months,the revelations are many and lives are changed. A beautifully written novel, this will draw you into the character's world of Paris and their lives.