Agatha is erratic, Meghan is aggrieved, and the two of them are on a collision course, the terms of which “The Secrets She Keeps” heavily suggests by the end of its first episode.įor a series that is being billed as a noirish thriller, it’s slightly frustrating that “The Secrets She Keeps” doesn’t really deviate from a certain narrative that is established in its first hour it plays things relatively straight. But she’s also quite prickly, pushing away an old friend, ignoring her mother’s phone calls, and dropping the pregnancy bombshell on ex-boyfriend Hayden ( Michael Sheasby) after months of no contact. Is Agatha starstruck? She is a little overly giggly after engineering a conversation with Meghan about their pregnancies, and about their similar due dates: the first week in June. Whenever Meghan visits the grocery store, she’s trailed by store clerk Agatha, who also follows Mucky Kids. While Meghan and Jack struggle to keep up a flawless façade, she’s being watched. And the baby is another wedge in Meghan and Jack’s already askew marriage: “We need to find our intimacy again,” Meghan complains to her younger sister Grace ( Cariba Heine), but she’s not sure if Jack is willing to meet her in the middle. Meghan’s blog brings in a few hundred dollars a month, but she’s also plagued by a troll who leaves comments threatening her and her baby on every single Mucky Kids post. Jack, meanwhile, has been trying for years for a promotion and raise at work, but he keeps missing out on anchor jobs the strain of his one salary supporting a growing family is beginning to show. While they go out for lunch and drinks, Meghan is at home with the children, handling the majority of the domestic labor. She dislikes how much time he spends with best friend Simon ( Ryan Corr), who also works at the TV network. They live in a gorgeous home their children are healthy and Meghan’s blog is increasingly popular.īut this series is a thriller, after all, and so there must be flies in the soup of Meghan and Jack’s relationship. ![]() On it, she posts and vlogs about her two children with husband Jack ( Michael Dorman), a TV sports reporter, and about her “oops baby pregnancy.” Jack and Meghan didn’t plan to have a third child-and her excitement far outweighs his-but by all appearances, their lives seem perfect. Meghan is an aspiring influencer, a mommy blogger with 90,000 followers of her Mucky Kids blog. Although similarly aged as 30somethings and similarly pregnant at 9 months along, Meghan ( Jessica De Gouw) and Agatha (Carmichael) are otherwise quite different. From internationally bestselling author Michael Robotham, The Secrets She Keeps is a dark, exquisite, and twisted page-turner so full of surprises, you’ll find it impossible to put down.“The Secrets She Keeps” follows two women living in a suburb outside Sydney, Australia. ![]() Soon the lives of these two women will collide in the most spellbinding and intimate of ways, until their secrets are exposed by one shocking act that cannot be undone. Meghan has her secrets too, especially one that she dare not ever tell. Yet if Agatha could look beyond the gloss and trappings of Meghan’s “perfect life,” she’d see the flaws and doubts. Meghan has it all: two adorable children, a handsome and successful husband, a happy marriage, a beautiful house, and a popular parenting blog that Agatha reads with devotion each night as she waits for her absent boyfriend, the father of the baby growing inside her, to return her calls. ![]() And the one thing Agatha looks forward to each day is catching a glimpse of her, the effortlessly chic customer at the grocery store where she works stocking shelves. The result? A book you won’t be able to put down, although you may occasionally want to hide your eyes.” -Stephen King “A premium delivery.” - People Meghan doesn’t know Agatha, but Agatha knows Meghan. Add Michael Robotham’s clean prose and whipcrack pacing. “Two terrific female characters, both with secrets.
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