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