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The Secrets She Keeps
Helen Cross
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Description for The Secrets She Keeps
Paperback. A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the acclaimed author of My Summer of Love Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242. 8vo. Good clean copy
Nineteen-year-old John has been plucked from his small-time London life to be the famous Misty Moore's nanny while she hides out - post-pregnancy - in a crumbling mansion in Wychwood, in deepest Yorkshire. He is dazzled by his change of fortune, by Misty's impossible breasts and most of all by the heartbreaking Hepsie Vine, who is mysteriously bound to Misty. But there's more to his job than just glamour and decadence. For the village of Wychwood comes with the dank trace of secrets and Misty, of course, has plenty of her own...
Nineteen-year-old John has been plucked from his small-time London life to be the famous Misty Moore's nanny while she hides out - post-pregnancy - in a crumbling mansion in Wychwood, in deepest Yorkshire. He is dazzled by his change of fortune, by Misty's impossible breasts and most of all by the heartbreaking Hepsie Vine, who is mysteriously bound to Misty. But there's more to his job than just glamour and decadence. For the village of Wychwood comes with the dank trace of secrets and Misty, of course, has plenty of her own...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747578918
SKU
KEX0265159
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About Helen Cross
Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She is the author of the critically acclaimed My Summer of Love (also published by Bloomsbury) which won a Betty Trask Prize. Helen Cross currently lives in Birmingham.
Reviews for The Secrets She Keeps
'There's a timeless feel to this tale of loneliness, greed and beauty. Cross writes as beautifully as you'd expect' Daily Mail 'Dark and dramatic - a fab read' Company 'Cross's strengths are a compelling stylistic immediacy and an ability to imbue the everyday world with sensuality and strangeness ... it has the raw energy and flashes of brilliance ... Read more