The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets: The bestselling coming-of-age novel from the author of This Could Be Everything - Softcover

Rice, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755325508 ISBN 13: 9780755325504

Publisher: Headline Review, 2005

Synopsis

Miranda Hart contributes a fabulous foreword to this beautiful new edition of the beloved bestseller, published to celebrate its ten year anniversary. Hailed a 'modern vintage classic', The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets was a Richard and Judy Book Club Choice.

This special edition also includes a brand new exclusive short story from Eva Rice, The Moth Trap, which offers a glimpse into the cocktail party where Penelope's parents, Archie and Talitha, first met.

Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, this is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock'n'roll era.

Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love, but various rather inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry...

About this title

Review:

So good we could hardly speak (Observer)

A delight of Nancy Mitford-esque trials and tribulations (Vogue)

This tenth anniversary edition of Rice's modern classic is a treat for fans of Nancy Mitford and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Stylishly written with a touch of whimsical charm (The Lady)

From the Publisher:

Selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0755325508
• ISBN 13: 9780755325504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480