# A Book of Secrets

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- Authors: [Michael Holroyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-holroyd)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-11-03

## Description

A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light; Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; Eve Fairfax was Lord Grimthorpe's abandoned fiancée and sometime muse of Auguste Rodin; and the novelist Violet Trefusis was the lover of Vita Sackville-West. Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West's home at Knole, A Book of Secrets lucidly gives voice to fragile human connections.

## Editions

### A Book of Secrets

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-894-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB