The story is a microcosm of the broad suffering wrought by the intimate liaison between the Catholic Church and the Irish State, particularly on young women and their offspring.
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Secret Keeper is the second part of the My Myth trilogy, and this astonishingly insightful and moving YA fantasy novel takes us even deeper into the painful reality of Emily’s existence.
The life of Gordon Zahler was simply so miraculous that it might as well have been science fiction. Born into an entertainment family in suburban Los Angeles in the mid-1920s, Zahler was a lovable prankster and class clown, exasperating his parents with his endless teenage feats of derring-do.
For forty-five years, master pastry chef and confectioner, Henry Peppermint Twist, worked for one of the world’s largest companies: The Brackmeyer Sweets Factory. But things turn quickly sour for Henry, and the nearly four thousand other workers it employed, as the aged and frail founder retires; leaving his evil and greedy son, Charles B. Brackmeyer Jr., to become the factory’s new president.
