The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch Paperback

Donna Tartt gives away the killing in the first pages and then spends the novel explaining how five classics students at a small Vermont college arrived at it. Richard Papen, an outsider from California, talks his way into a closed Greek seminar taught by a tutor who picks his own students, and the group's private intensity slowly detaches from ordinary rules. The book works as a campus novel, a study of class envy and a long account of guilt arriving after the fact rather than before it. This Penguin UK paperback carries the complete text and is listed for readers of twelve and above. Why it stays on shelves: • Complete novel in a Penguin UK paperback • Campus setting built around a closed classics seminar • Outcome given early, tension built from cause • Listed for readers aged twelve and above For literary fiction readers, book clubs and students of contemporary American novels, available from Boipoka.