The Secret History

The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled

New York Times

So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure

Guardian

Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller

Stephen King

Takes my breath away

Ruth Rendell

A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read

Vanity Fair

Brilliant and compulsive

Evening Standard

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth

The Times