The Secret

(Paperback)

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'Of course, I've always had a secret. Have I always known it I suppose I did, in a way - in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and I didn't know...' A young woman with a peculiarly powerful bond with her mother is haunted by notions of her identity and consciousness. Who really is she A novel of secrets, The Secret is an imaginative and gripping fable, and a look at the dark reaches of science.

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'With a shrewd regard for language and gesture, Hoffman teases out the tell-tale signs of an alienated soul...Generates a modern allegory somewhere between Frankenstein and Bladerunner' Independent on Sunday

Author Bio

Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland, and immigrated to America at the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and letters, she currently lives in London