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where she simply visits with the families while they eat dinner. She enjoys talking with the children, often taking the smaller ones off to play so their mothers can eat in peace, for a few minutes at least. It saddens her that some of the children are so hard to reach, their wariness having been ground into them at such a young age. Like their mothers, they are often quicker to forgive and accept than they are to trust. The women are always kind to her. And if any have heard the story, they never let on. Their own secrets are burden enough.

About the Author

Mary McGarry Morris is the author of seven novels. She was a National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner finalist for her first novel, Vanished. In 1991 her novel A Dangerous Woman was chosen by Time magazine as one of the “Five Best Novels of the Year” and was made into a motion picture. Her bestselling novel Songs in Ordinary Time was an Oprah Book Club selection and a CBS television movie. Also among her critically acclaimed novels are Fiona Range, A Hole in the Universe, and The Lost Mother. She lives in Massachusetts.

Copyright © 2009 by Mary McGarry Morris

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morris, Mary McGarry.

The last secret: a novel/Mary McGarry Morris.

p. cm.

1. Adultery—Fiction. 2. Secrecy—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction.

4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.O874454L37 2009

813′.54—dc22 2008025587

eISBN: 978-0-307-45128-6

v3.0

Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

About the Author

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