The Secret History – 30th anniversary edition

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE

The beautiful 30th anniversary edition of Tartt’s classic. Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt’s cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement – both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

‘Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together—my future, my past, the whole of my life—and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!’

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

‘Haunting, compelling and brilliant’ The Times

‘Irresistible and seductive’ Guardian

‘Enthralling… Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled’ New York Times