![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vibrant, witty, and filled with vivid historical detail, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets is an utterly unique debut novel about a time and place just slipping into history. Charlotte's mysterious and attractive brother Harry uses Penelope to make his American ex-girlfriend jealous, with unforeseen consequences, and a dashing, wealthy American movie producer arrives with what might be the key to Penelope's- and her family's-future happiness. Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change for them all. Even Talitha now shops, heavily influenced by the 'flounce of Parisian culture and five-inch heals. Rationing is a thing of the past, with shops stocking products from all over the world. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral home-while postwar London spins toward the next decade's cultural revolution. The Lost Art of Keeping Secretsis about a newly rejuvenated post-war England eager to adopt the new and glamorous. Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war. ![]()
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