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The Secret History

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141042077

  • Length: 1323  Minutes

  • RRP: £16.00

The Secret History

  • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

Penguin Audiobooks presents Donna Tartt's cult thriller The Secret History, unabridged, downloadable and read by the author herself.

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ...

The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141042077

  • Length: 1323  Minutes

  • RRP: £16.00

About the Author

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages, and The Goldfinch.

Donna Tartt

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