The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets: The bestselling coming-of-age novel from the author of This Could Be Everything
by Rice, Eva
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0755325508
- ISBN 13
- 9780755325504
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Synopsis
Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral homewhile postwar London spins toward the next decades cultural revolution. Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change for them all. Charlottes mysterious and attractive brother Harry uses Penelope to make his American ex-girlfriend jealous, with unforeseen consequences, and a dashing, wealthy American movie producer arrives with what might be the key to Penelopes and her familysfuture happiness. Vibrant, witty, and filled with vivid historical detail, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets is an utterly unique debut novel about a time and place just slipping into history.
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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets: The bestselling coming-of-age novel from the author of This Could Be Everything
- Author
- Rice, Eva
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 24
- ISBN 10
- 0755325508
- ISBN 13
- 9780755325504
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2005
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