London: Headline Review. Very Good-. 2005. Reprint; Fifteenth Printing. Paperback. Light reading creases and shelf wear, Richard & Judy's Book Club sticker to front cover, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fifteenth printing. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Fuko Kawamura. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 448 pages; Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War. 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... .

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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 home—while postwar London spins toward the next decade’s 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. Charlotte’s 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 Penelope’s— and her family’s—future 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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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 29822
Title: The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Author: Rice, Eva
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Edition: Reprint; Fifteenth Printing
ISBN 10: 0755325508
ISBN 13: 9780755325504
Publisher: Headline Review
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2005
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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