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The lost art of keeping secrets

Struggling to preserve her family's crumbling estate as well as their lifestyle in 1950s London, Penelope endeavors to fall in love, participates in a plot with her best friend's brother, and finds herself falling for a wealthy American movie producer.

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  • "Lost art of keeping secrets"@it
  • "Lost art of keeping secrets"@pl

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  • "Set in the early 1950s, in the aftermath of the Second World War and before the emergence of rock 'n' roll, this is the engrossing story of Penny and her eccentric family."
  • "Struggling to preserve her family's crumbling estate as well as their lifestyle in 1950s London, Penelope endeavors to fall in love, participates in a plot with her best friend's brother, and finds herself falling for a wealthy American movie producer."
  • "Struggling to preserve her family's crumbling estate as well as their lifestyle in 1950s London, Penelope endeavors to fall in love, participates in a plot with her best friend's brother, and finds herself falling for a wealthy American movie producer."@en
  • "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 home'while 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's'future 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."@en
  • "Set in the early 1950s, in the aftermath of the Second World War and before the emergence of rock 'n' roll, 'The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets' is the engrossing story of Penny and her eccentric family."

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "L' Amour comme par hasard"
  • "Die verlorene Kunst, Liebschaften zu pflegen Roman"
  • "Utracona sztuka dochowywania tajemnic"@pl
  • "L'amour comme par hasard"
  • "El Olvidado arte de guardar secretos"
  • "Die verlorene Kunst, Liebschaften zu pflegen : Roman"
  • "The lost art of keeping secrets"@en
  • "The lost art of keeping secrets"
  • "El olvidado arte de guardar secretos"@es
  • "L'arte perduta di mantenere i segreti"
  • "The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets"
  • "L'arte perduta di mantenere i segreti"@it
  • "The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets"@en
  • "The lost art of keeping secrets : a novel"
  • "The lost art of keeping secrets : a novel"@en
  • "Den bortglömda konsten att bevara en hemlighet"@sv
  • "The lost art of keeping secrets a novel"@en

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