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This Book of the Month is the new novel from Tatiana De Rosnay (author of million-copy international best seller Sarah’s Key), and its looking set to be a real summer sizzler. Alongside Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson and others she was named as one of the top ten fiction writers (top female author) in Europe for 2010 – bet she never thought that would happen when she wrote her first novel at the tender age of ten!

We can quite confidently say A Secret Kept will keep you enthralled to the point that if your reading it at breakfast time you’ll distractedly put juice on your cornflakes, someone will need to shout your name ten times before you respond and you’ll go whizzing past your tube stop on a regular basis.

Here are just a few things people have said about it:

International Best Seller Douglas Kennedy : ‘That rare thing – a hugely accomplished, compelling, compulsively readable novel which also grapples with the big stuff: love, loss, and life’s other complexities’

Magic Reviewer : ‘I’ve had to swallow tears and tell the lump in my throat to behave four times in half an hour. The searing accuracy of how De Rosnay purveys the sense of loving, losing and the complexity of family relationships, at points leaves you feeling winded with sympathy...’

Here’s a quick extract from the book:
I can still hear the screech of the wheels, feel the sudden lurch of the car as it veered sharply to the right, careering into the railing. And her scream. I can still hear her scream.

How many people have waited here? I think. How many people have sat where I am sitting now and waited for news of their loved ones? I cannot help imagining what these jaundiced walls have seen. What they know. What they remember. Tears, shouts or relief. Hope, pain or joy. (Read more here)

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