Choices - Fiction
Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
 | The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the 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 was a Richard and Judy read in 2006. Marie Clare thought 'This charming pastiche of a Fifties coming-of-age novel follows in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and Molly Keane' Some of the reader reviews on Amazon were less complimentary…… |
