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The Secret History By Donna Tartt

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THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE

‘Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together—my future, my past, the whole of my life—and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!’

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

‘Haunting, compelling and brilliant’ The Times

‘Irresistible and seductive’ Guardian

‘Enthralling… Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled’ New York Times

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The Secret History succeeds magnificently … A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment … Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled
New York Times

So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure
Guardian

A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read
Vanity Fair

Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller
Stephen King

Takes my breath away
Ruth Rendell

Brilliant and compulsive
Evening Standard

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction … Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth
The Times

Weight 0.44 kg
Dimensions 199 × 130 × 30 cm