The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Registered by Molyneux of Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on 4/1/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
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Synopsis
Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the enchanting 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 is an utterly engrossing read, in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.
From the Publisher
Selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club
From the Author
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review my book (with the exception of the charming Sheila!) It took a long time to write and a great deal of research, but I hope you think it was worth it. When I started TLAOKS, I hoped to get people interested in the destruction of the country house and also in checking out some of the lesser known fifties stars (like dreamy Johnnie Ray.) But essentially, it is a love story without mobiles and email... I am always so thrilled that anyone at all reads what I write, so the success of this work is way beyond anything I had hoped for. I like to think that it takes people out of the noughties and back to a time when tea was vital, trains ran on time and everything was possible as long as you had a good pair of shoes, a packet of American cigarettes and omlettes to eat at dawn. Enjoy...
Synopsis
Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the enchanting 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 is an utterly engrossing read, in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.
From the Publisher
Selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club
From the Author
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review my book (with the exception of the charming Sheila!) It took a long time to write and a great deal of research, but I hope you think it was worth it. When I started TLAOKS, I hoped to get people interested in the destruction of the country house and also in checking out some of the lesser known fifties stars (like dreamy Johnnie Ray.) But essentially, it is a love story without mobiles and email... I am always so thrilled that anyone at all reads what I write, so the success of this work is way beyond anything I had hoped for. I like to think that it takes people out of the noughties and back to a time when tea was vital, trains ran on time and everything was possible as long as you had a good pair of shoes, a packet of American cigarettes and omlettes to eat at dawn. Enjoy...
Bought on impulse from Tesco...I just happened to go down the isle where the books were....
Donated by Molyneux for Bookcrossing in Cardiff.
Journal Entry 4 by 
Coffee-1-OBCZ
at Coffee#1, Albany Road, Cardiff in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Coffee-1-OBCZ at Coffee#1, Albany Road, Cardiff in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (3/18/2008 UTC) at Coffee#1, Albany Road, Cardiff in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
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On the bookcrossing shelf.
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Happy reading.
On the bookcrossing shelf.
Please write a journal entry letting me know that this book was caught and has found a safe home with you. (It's anonymous, and you don't have to join Bookcrossing to do it.) Then read this book or give it to a friend. Afterwards hopefully, you or your friend will release it again for someone else to find - just like you did.
Enjoy your book and when you have finished reading come back here and let us know when and where you will pass the book on to another reader. Write a review if you like, then release it and come back anytime to see what happened to it next.
I still have to read it. Just felt I had to register it straight away :D
Journal Entry 6 by preciousss at Coffee#1 Wood Street in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Monday, June 30, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (6/28/2008 UTC) at Coffee#1 Wood Street in Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
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cardiff coffee #1, close to cardiff central station.
not my sort of book.
cardiff coffee #1, close to cardiff central station.
not my sort of book.
