![]() When the two women bond at the supermarket and then a yoga class, their relationship eventually takes a sinister turn. While Agatha counts the days down by stacking shelves in a local supermarket, Meghan continues to work on her parenting blog, while raising her other two children. Both are in their third trimester, eagerly waiting the arrival of their new bundle of joy. To date, Robotham’s work seems to have escaped my attention, which is unfortunate as I really enjoyed his latest crime based psychological thriller, The Secrets She Keeps.Īgatha and Meghan are from opposite sides of the tracks but one thing they share is pregnancy. He is also best known for his series of books based on lead protagonist Joe O’Loughlin. Robotham has an impressive collection of awards under his belt. Michael Robotham is one of Australia’s most revered crime fiction novelists. With its brilliant rendering of the secrets some women hold close and a shocking act that cannot be undone, The Secrets She Keeps delivers a dark and twisted page-turner that is absolutely impossible to put down. ![]() Little does Meghan know that the mundane exchange she has with a grocery store employee during a hurried afternoon shopping trip is about to change the course of her not-so-perfect life forever… When Agatha learns that Meghan is pregnant again, and that their due dates fall within the same month, she finally musters up the courage to speak to her, thrilled that they now have the ordeal of childbearing in common. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a handsome husband, a happy marriage, a stylish group of friends, and she writes perfectly droll confessional posts on her popular parenting blog-posts that Agatha reads with devotion each night as she waits for her absent boyfriend, the father of her baby, to maybe return her calls. As the hours of her shifts creep by in increasing discomfort, the one thing she looks forward to at work is catching a glimpse of Meghan, the effortlessly chic customer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. In the bestselling tradition of The Girl on the Train and In a Dark, Dark Wood, from the internationally bestselling author whom Stephen King called “an absolute master” of the psychological thriller, comes a riveting suspense novel about the unlikely friendship between two pregnant women that asks: how far would you go to create the perfect family?Īgatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb, counting down the days until her baby is due. ![]() However, in a shocking twist, it was revealed at the end of the episode that Aggie had survived and been sent to prison, while Meghan managed to fake a DNA test to find out whether Ben belonged to her husband Jack or his friend Simon (Ryan Corr) by switching out the testing swab for her other son Lockie's.Genres: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller Terrified Meghan, aware that Aggie had stolen babies before who had gone on to die, managed to get hold of her child to feed him and when the police arrived, Aggie appeared to shoot herself. ![]() She refused and eventually came face to face with Meghan again, criticising her for being "ungrateful" for her apparently perfect life while Aggie was forced to give up her own child as a teenager and had not been able to have any more children. However, Hayden tricked Meghan and the police by lying about where Aggie would be, before making his escape from a police car and running to Aggie to try to convince her to take some money and go on the run with the baby. Related: The Secrets She Keeps viewers unimpressed by "obvious" twist ![]()
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