she has written a book whose ending I could not predict. While there were some elements of the story I could see coming, she stumped me in many ways in her most recent novel, The Secret Keeper. You know what this means, I will be able to continue reading her books, which I really enjoy. I find her similar to Jodi Picoult in that I am drawn in by the story. These two authors are vastly different in every other way, but once I begin a book by either I have trouble stopping until I have finished.
Morton writes historical fiction in a small way. Meaning, reading her works do not teach me about BIG historical events and their import, but instead I learn about what it was like to live in a particular period and/or place as a regular person. In this latest book, WWII London, which is a time and place by which I am fascinated, is a significant setting. What is predictable about the novel is the switch between the past and the present, as the main character Laurel Nicholson tries to make sense of some haunting childhood memories involving her mother who is close to death in the present.
If you have seen the movie Midnight in Paris, which I liked a great deal despite the involvement of both Woody Allen and Owen Wilson about whom I have mixed feelings, you will know that in it, Wilson travels back in time to Paris of the 1920s. He believes this time period to be far superior to his own. While there he meets Marion Cotillard with whom he travels back to the Belle Epoch where she decides to stay, believing this time to be superior to the time Wilson finds so enthralling. To finally get to my point, this is the way I feel about a number of time periods in history, but I feel the most drawn to the second World War, specifically England. Therefore I am happy to read both fiction and non-fiction about this time.
Sigh, sadly, while I fervently wish Morton were home working on her next novel, she is instead travling Australia to promote this one. I do not think authors should have to do that....I think they should be home writing, so I do not have to wait too long for another book.
