The Secret History

A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction The Times So irresistible and seductive it’s almost a guilty pleasure Guardian 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 huge, mesmerizing, galloping read Vanity Fair A page-turner in the true sense Independent Brilliant Sunday Times

Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.