The Secret History, 30 years on: Looking back on a milestone book
Marjorie Brennan: Donna Tartt’s compelling and murderous tale of a clique of classics students who fall under the spell of a charismatic professor at an elite American college connected with me in a way that few books have since
There are some books that serve as milestones in our lives, evocations of a particular time and place tucked between the timeworn covers. For me, The Secret History is one of those.
As a teenage undergraduate on the cusp of adulthood, Donna Tartt’s compelling and murderous tale of a clique of classics students who fall under the spell of a charismatic professor at an elite American college connected with me in a way that few books have since.
