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The Secrets She Keeps cast as BBC thriller comes back for second series

It's been two years since the dark and twisted BBC thriller The Secrets She Keeps was last on screen but it's returned for a second series, which continues this weekend.

Inspired by a real life baby kidnap in the UK, The Secrets She Keeps is an Australian-set drama, which focuses on the very contrasting lives of two women Megan, a well to do 'mummy' blogger who appears to have it all and Agatha, a woman with a very troubled past who set out to carry out a desperate and horrific crime.

Series one of The Secrets She Keeps aired on the BBC in the summer of 2020, with the plot focused on Agatha's obsession with Megan, an obsession which led to her stealing Megan's newborn baby son Ben from hospital, as she battled the demons of her own past and the loss of her still born daughter.

READ MORE: What happened in The Secrets She Keeps series one?

The gripping conclusion of the first run saw Agatha refuse to hand the baby boy in, even when he became gravely ill, just as it transpired that she'd been connected to three previous baby abductions. After coming face to face with fraught mum Megan, Agatha eventually gave up Ben, who she'd been calling Rory, before being shot by police and pit behind bars.

Megan's life, as well as having her son taken from her, was far from perfect as husband Jack had an affair and she tried to keep an affair of her own secret, particularly given that the man he was involved with, Simon, could be Ben's father.

Many of the cast from series one return for the second series, including Downtown Abbey star Laura Carmichael, in the role of Agatha.

The Secrets She Keeps cast on BBC

Meghan Shaughnessy - Jessica De Gouw

Jack Shaughnessy - Todd Lasance

Agatha Fyfel - Laura Carmichael

Vicky Michaelson - Danielle Cormack

Simon Beecher - Ryan Corr

Grace - Cariba Heine

Series two picks up two years on from Agatha's kidnap of baby ben, with her due to stand trial. . A young investigative journalist, hungry to report on Agatha’s side of the story, hounds Meghan for information.

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