«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

«A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read»

Vanity Fair

«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

«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