Kit Caless has something to tell you.

When Kit was a child, his father worked for the UK Ministry of Defence's security forces. But Kit didn't know it at the time--he wasn't allowed to know. And reflecting on that, he finds himself thinking about other secrets.

Keeping a secret alters everything. How you view yourself. How you act in social groups. How you interact with a loved one, a boss, a colleague, a neighbour.

Depending on the context, being asked to keep a secret can make you both trustworthy and untrustworthy; powerful and powerless; reliable and unreliable. Secrets are dynamic, they move from person to person, location to location.

Secrets are hard. They hurt. But they also bond.

Secrets is a book about who holds secrets, why, and what the impact of holding a secret can have on you, the community around you, and society in general.

But don't tell anyone that.