Sandscript Keeps Secrets

Can you keep a secret? Most authors can, often the plots of novels depend on them. A writer polishing her first book told me that in her next novel nobody would have secrets from anybody; it was too stressful remembering what each character knew and who they were keeping secrets from.

I have just finished reading ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ by Kate Atkinson. You can read the review on Goodreads.
Kate Atkinson keeps secrets from her readers and from her main character Ruby Lennox. We follow Ruby from the moment of her conception. As the youngest in the family Ruby has many secrets kept from her including the big one that readers can only vaguely guess at. What adds to the delight of the novel is that Ruby the narrator is the only one who knows the future, sees when characters are making mistakes they will regret for the rest of their lives, knows when characters are about to have their lives cut short.

In 'Brief Encounters of the Third Kind' Susan Dexter has kept a secret for thirty years, she fears her daughter is not human. When at last she meets people who share her secret they find themselves wrapped in a further complex web of secrets and lies.

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