The Queen's Reading Room

The Secret History

By Donna Tartt

Recommended By Bonnie Garmus

When Richard Papen escapes his dreary childhood and finds himself enrolled at an elite New England college, he befriends a group of misfits almost as clever and complicated as himself. As their small circle intensifies and the standard rules of morality begin to drift, a mesmerising thriller unravels.
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla

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Publish Date: 1992

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. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.

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