Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt’s cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement – incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
Praise for The Secret History
The Secret History succeeds magnificently … A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment … Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled
NEW YORK TIMESSo irresistible and seductive it’s almost a guilty pleasure
GUARDIANDonna 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
A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read
VANITY FAIR
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