Eva Rice

Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide- eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral homewhile postwar London spins toward the next decade''s cultural revolution. Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change for them all. Charlotte''s mysterious and attractive brother Harry uses Penelope to make his American ex-girlfriend jealous, with unforeseen consequences, and a dashing, wealthy American movie producer arrives with what might be the key to Penelope''s and her family''sfuture happiness. Vibrant, witty, and filled with vivid historical detail, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets is an utterly unique debut novel about a time and place just slipping into history.

The perfect, feel-good, comforting read to cosy up with as the nights draw in. Escape to 1990, Notting Hill, first love, and hope. Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You VERONICA HENRYEvery time I have read one of Eva Rices books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket JOJO MOYES The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing. GEORGINA MOORE, author of The Garnett GirlsI finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving...funny, witty, wise and superbly written...The age beautifully evoked STEPHEN FRYYou will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Evas latest story HAS everything JILLY COOPER Its 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman. February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher. THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is a coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. Its about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring Praise for This Could Be Everything:A beautiful, atmospheric, brilliantly observed thing of joy. Eva Rice is a fantastic observer and relayer of the human experience. Absolutely wonderfulMel GiedroycA beautiful balm of a book full of hope and possibility, This Could Be Everything will break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic. The way Rice weaves together fiction and reality is delicious, with details on every page that will have pop fans, Londoners and 90s nostalgics squealing with delight. Nobody captures the exhilaration of first love and teen fandom quite like herLauren Bravo A reason to be cheerful - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is the book Ive been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, its glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming Daisy Buchanan This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it Betty Boo A gorgeous story about first love and hope Red A moving novel about sisterhood, grief and first love Good HousekeepingThe story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You wont be able to put it downHeat

Beautifully written, intelligent and grippingDaily Mail. From the Richard and Judy bestselling author of The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets. Every ending is a new beginning . . .No one expected Marnie Fitzpatrick to be expelled from school . . . but the aftermath will haunt her forever. No one imagined shed fall for the boy from the wrong side of town . . . until the day she saw him dancing alone.No one could know she had the one thing he needed to capture his dreams . . . the courage to chase them. From the author of the Richard and Judy classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a story about how sometimes the cruelest beginnings can lead to the most unexpected of endings.

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The classic bestseller adored by thousands of readers from the author of THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING. Hailed as a modern vintage classic, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets was a Richard and Judy Book Club Choice and is in development as a major new TV series.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 rocknroll 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 isnt Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlottes sardonic cousin Harry...*** PRAISE FOR EVA RICE ***Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You - Veronica HenryA reason to be cheerful . . . the book Ive been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, its glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming - Daisy BuchananWill break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic. The way Rice weaves together fiction and reality is delicious . . . Nobody captures the exhilaration of first love and teen fandom quite like her - Lauren BravoThis special tenth anniversary edition includes a foreword by Miranda Hart and an exclusive short story from Eva Rice, The Moth Trap, which offers a glimpse into the cocktail party where Penelopes parents, Archie and Talitha, first met.

This book is a must-readHeat1962, Cornwall. Tara Jupp - vicars daughter, occasional thief, expert horse-rider and second fiddle to her sister the beauty Lucy - sings at a wedding and is spotted by a record producer. With the spotlight suddenly, thrillingly shining on her alone, the roots of Taras country existence are shaken free and she is propelled to Swinging Sixties London. Plunged into a dazzling new world of fashion, music and heartache, in a city where skirts are being hitched up as fast as past is being pulled down, can Tara hold the limelight and hold on to who she really is?Readers LOVE Eva Rices novels***** Delightful***** Truly wonderful***** A definite must-read***** Beautiful, moving***** Very evocative***** One of my favourite authors***** The best books Ive read

"Rices remarkable gift for creating singular characters in this memorable story underscores her presence as a fresh new voice in fiction."Publishers WeeklySet in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide-eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who lost her husband to the war. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral homewhile postwar London spins toward the next decades cultural revolution.Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change for them all. Charlottes mysterious and attractive brother Harry uses Penelope to make his American ex-girlfriend jealous, with unforeseen consequences, and a dashing, wealthy American movie producer arrives with what might be the key to Penelopesand her familysfuture happiness.Vibrant, witty, and filled with vivid historical detail, this is an utterly unique debut novel about a time and place just slipping into history.

"Si Jane Austen viviera en nuestro tiempo, escribiría libros como este. Rice nos sirve un pedacito resplandeciente y tan sabroso que te lo querrás comer todo de un solo mordisco." Cosmopolitan"Una lectura inolvidable." Scotsman "Escrita con elegancia e inteligencia." Elle"Este encantador retrato de una puesta de largo de los años cincuenta sigue los pasos de Nancy Mitford y de Molly Keane. Rebosa el encanto de la epoca." Marie ClaireEn una Inglaterra que todavia se esta recuperando de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, El olvidado arte de guardar secretos, narra la cautivadora historia de Penelope Wallace y de su excentrica familia durante los inicios de la era del rock & roll.Penelope se muere de ganas de ser adulta y de enamorarse; sin embargo, diversos obstaculos se interponen en su camino, como su madre, una mujer de impresionante belleza, pero malhumorada, que enviudo demasiado joven; su hermano pequeño Inigo, incapaz de concentrarse en algo que no sea Elvis Presley, una formidable casa solariega que se cae a pedazos, graves penurias economicas; y Harry, el sarcastico primo de su mejor amiga Charlotte. El primer libro de Eva Rice, A Guide to the Characters of Enid Blyton, se publico en 1997. Su primera novela, Standing Room Only, fue publicada en el año 2000. Ahora El Aleph Edit