Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral home-and the lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed-while postwar London spins toward the next decade’s cultural revolution. With mannered prose dripping in the charm of 1950s London, TheLost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide-eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who is unable to move beyond the loss of her charmed husband to the war. Eva Rice, daughter of the famed lyricist Tim Rice, has written a captivating and wonderfully stylized novel about a group of friends in postwar London’s glamorous and daring young society.
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