The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Registered by wyldetwo of Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on 4/13/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
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.
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.
Journal Entry 2 by wyldetwo from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, June 28, 2007
An enjoyable and lively read with a few annoying anachronisms!
Journal Entry 3 by wyldetwo at BCUK Unconvention 2007 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Thursday, June 28, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (6/30/2007 UTC) at BCUK Unconvention 2007 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
For the book table - if not picked up it will be wild released somewhere in Brighton!
For the book table - if not picked up it will be wild released somewhere in Brighton!
Picked up at the Uncon.
A light and entertaining book that reminded me of I Capture the Castle.
Journal Entry 6 by 
rahar109
at to a helpful friend, to a friend -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 16, 2008
rahar109 at to a helpful friend, to a friend -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 16, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (6/15/2008 UTC) at to a helpful friend, to a friend -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Given to a friend.
Given to a friend.
