The Secret Letter by Kerry Barrett
Paperback published by HQ 6th February 2020
London, 1910. Twenty-one-year-old Esther Watkins would do anything for the Suffregette cause. Imprisoned, force-fed and beaten, she is determined to fight for what she believes is right-no matter what it costs her. With new love Joseph by her side, will she get the better future she dreams of?
Kent, 2019. With her marriage in tatters, school teacher Lizzie Armstrong moves to sleepy Elm Heath for a fresh start, and her pupils and the community soon steal her heart. So when the school is threatened with closure Lizzie knows she has to fight, and she looks to the school’s founder for inspiration.
What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath? And when Lizzie uncovers Esther’s heartbreaking secre, could it give her the strength she needs to save not just the school, but her new beginning too?
MY REVIEW
I literally couldn’t put this book down, if I could have given The Secret Letter by Kerry Barrett more than give stars I would most certainly have done so. This happens to be my kind of book to read.
My heart went out to Lizzie Armstrong who was in charge of an infant school in London, whose marriage ended because her husband who worked at Broadway Common school faked SATs results.
Lizzie moves to Elm Heath as head teacher , but the school could close. Lizzie must come up with a way to save her new life as head teacher, and save the wonderful children from having to travel to a new school. Then an idea comes to light to find out more about Esther Watkins who was a suffragette and founder of the village school at Elm Heath.
The two stories about Lizzie Armstrong and Esther Watkins are an absolute delight to read about. I highly recommend The Secret Letter, it’s totally unputdownable. Kerry Barrett has now become an author that I have fallen in love with her writing, and I have been looking up Kerry Barrett ‘s other books, and I have found that there are some more books that I want read.i have to say again, 100% recommend The Secret Letter. I am very happy that I now have to me found a new author to follow on Twitter and Goodreads.
How I received the book.
I was invited to be part of the blog tour, but I received my copy to late. I am deeply sorry that my blog tour review is late. The important part is I still wanted to to add my blog tour banner today with all these wonderful blogger’s.
My Thanks To
I would like to thank Jessica Lee, at HQ, so much for sending the paperback The Secret Letter by Kerry Barrett to read and review and most importantly for inviting me to be part of the blog tour.
ABOUT KERRY BARRETT
Kerry Barrett is the author of eight novels, including the Strictly Come Dancing themed A Step in Time, and The Girl in the Picture, about a crime novelist who solves a 160-year-old mystery.
Born in Edinburgh, Kerry moved to London as a child, where she now lives with her husband and two sons. A massive book worm growing up,she used to save her pocket money for weeks to buy the latest Sweet Valley High book, then read the whole story on the bus home and have to wait two months for the next one. Eventually she realised it would be easier to write her own stories.
Kerry’s years in television journalist, reporting on Eastenders and Corrie, have inspired her novels where popular culture collides with a historical mystery. But there is no truth in the rumours that she only wrote a novel based on Strictly Come Dancing so she would be invited onto It Takes Two.
When she’s not practising her foxtrot because you never know Kerry is watching Netflix,reading Jilly Cooper, and researching her latest historical story.
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