The Secret History (Paperback)

The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled - New York Times

So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure - Guardian

A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read - Vanity Fair

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 haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth - The Times