The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

'Utterly fabulous...You will love this book' Miranda Hart The glorious tenth anniversary edition of the classic bestseller adored by thousands of readers and hailed a 'modern vintage classic' (Heat). This beautiful new edition contains an exclusive foreword by Miranda Hart and brand new short story, The Moth Trap, by Eva Rice. THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS was a Richard & Judy Book Club Choice. Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, this 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 crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry...