Secrets from the Past

Secrets from the Past
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford’s glittering new novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession and redemption.Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous father’s footsteps. But when he dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life. At the same time, her former lover, Zachary North, comes out of Afghanistan a broken man in desperate need of a real friend.Serena and Zac inevitably rekindle their passion. But when Serena stumbles across one of her father’s old photographs, her whole world is turned upside down…In search of the truth about her father, her family and her own life, Serena begins a desperate quest to uncover a story from decades earlier.

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Barbara Taylor Bradford 2013

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Source ISBN: 9780007304165

Ebook Edition ISBN: 9780007304288

Version: 2017-10-25

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For Bob, with all my love

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u47b01acb-e804-5297-ac32-66fdb01360cf)

Copyright (#u1abb4d06-aa6b-5780-959b-e93f113690d5)

Dedication (#u98446f02-9715-5d79-8e7c-6be2e7cb0901)

Part One: Snapshot Memories: Manhattan, March 2011 (#u34ba7ad7-ce01-52b0-a45a-3a48dcfa2032)

Chapter One (#u4c68978a-dec2-56ca-93c9-8f7569288dcf)

Chapter Two (#uf1ec837b-434f-59c9-acd1-1fbc4756410a)

Chapter Three (#u50fc4973-ea84-5f4a-8cf6-1073246efc88)

Chapter Four (#u69d90a35-de09-52a3-a153-67076d5c582a)

Chapter Five (#u2edbe824-133d-5549-9158-45a69f6c36a6)

Chapter Six (#u820bd4c4-5aa7-55dc-902b-162a976be172)

Chapter Seven (#ud76cb2d5-6a4f-5985-a61d-5b2b51b64f76)

Part Two: Personal Close-Ups: Venice, April (#u2ba866e7-3679-505e-b978-83e33c353ba9)

Chapter Eight (#ud4f1d7dd-621c-5547-aca9-97da21d96aff)

Chapter Nine (#u58c1012b-6195-53ac-b451-61e299c7de99)

Chapter Ten (#u88af7e76-e466-5716-8352-fb3987efe26e)

Chapter Eleven (#u19eb567e-dec8-567c-8d15-5d5cd24d3745)

Chapter Twelve (#ua7b1cda6-11a4-5fdc-81bb-b3b18918af5c)

Chapter Thirteen (#u14b2e966-1380-5e88-8171-fceecd1d4f7d)

Chapter Fourteen (#u66e2f61f-eff7-5540-9558-bc91e8df369d)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: Revealing Angles: Nice, April (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)