The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets: The bestselling coming-of-age novel from the author of This Could Be Everything

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Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is 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. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age, her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumblng ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry...Eva Rice's novel is an utterly engrossing read, in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.

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So good we can hardly speak - Observer

Utterly fabulous. You will love this book - Miranda Hart

A delight of Nancy Mitford-esque trials and tribulations - Vogue

If you like your green tea loose and your thank-you notes from Smythson, you'll love this modern vintage classic ***** - Heat

Endlessly brilliant. Am irrevocably in love with all the characters - Katherine Rundell

A blissful read - Scotsman

If Jane Austen were still around, she'd be writing books like this. Rice serves up a slice of vintage lit so yummy, you'll want to eat it all in one go - Cosmopolitan

Elegantly and intelligently written - Elle

Author Bio

Eva Rice is the author of two previous novels and one non-fiction title, WHO'S WHO IN ENID BLYTON. She lives in London.