The Secret Rooms

Gripping. Reads like the best kind of mystery story. It is a tale of mistresses and heirlooms, cowardice and connivance * Sunday Times *‘Astonishing, jaw-dropping, superb. Horrifying, extraordinary * Sunday Telegraph *Extraordinary, edge-of-the-seat, enthralling. All the ingredients of a lurid horror. The plot is thick with destroyed documents, decadent aristocracy, betrayed honour and curses * Metro *Compelling. A remarkable piece of research which throws a bright shaft of light on powerful people, hypocrisy and the first world war – Jeremy Paxman * Guardian, Books of the Year *Wonderful … has everything: family intrigue and hatred, love and war, witches’ curses, eccentricity, snobbery and a series of shocking secrets. No reader can finish it unmoved * Sunday Express *Teems with hypocrisy, deceit, parental manipulation and bullying. Bailey artfully shows how guilt, grief, pride and shame levied a heavy toll * Literary Review *An extraordinary detective operation – John Julius NorwichExcellent, beautifully crafted, fascinating * Red *Excellent. A fine, suspenseful, atmospheric tale, a less melodramatic and more nuanced Downton Abbey * Daily Express *Bailey’s fascinating book takes us to the heart of a family tragedy … this is a horrifying story of love, despair, intrigue, snobbery and upper class eccentricity which reads like fiction but is amazingly - and shockingly - real * Lancashire Evening Post *

Catherine Bailey is the author of two bestselling works of twentieth-century history- Black Diamonds and The Secret Rooms. She lives in London.

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