Tara Jupp führt ein normales Leben in der Provinz, bis sie 1962 bei einer hochkarätigen Hochzeit in ihrer Heimat begeistert. Um als Sängerin „Cherry Merrywell“ in London durchzustarten, taucht sie in die Swinging Sixties ein und erlebt aufregende Partys und eine erste Liebe. Charmant und britisch!
Downton Abbey trifft auf die Swinging Sixties – charmant, britisch, einfach zum Verlieben! Tara Jupp führt ein relativ normales Leben in der englischen Provinz, bis sich im Sommer 1962 plötzlich alles ändert: In ihrem Heimatdorf findet die Hochzeit des Jahres statt, halb London reist für die Trauung an und ist hingerissen von Tara, die in der Kirche das Solo singt. Um als Sängerin »Cherry Merrywell« groß rauszukommen, geht Tara nach London – und landet mitten in den Swinging Sixties! Zwischen heißen Klamotten, wilden Partys und den angesagtesten Künstlern des Jahrzehnts verliert sie ihre Unschuld und ihr Herz ...
Miranda Hart contributes a fabulous foreword to this beautiful new edition of the beloved bestseller, published to celebrate its ten year anniversary. Hailed a 'modern vintage classic', The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets was a Richard and Judy Book Club Choice. This special edition also includes a brand new exclusive short story from Eva Rice, The Moth Trap, which offers a glimpse into the cocktail party where Penelope's parents, Archie and Talitha, first met. 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 rock'n'roll 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 isn't Elvis Presley, a vast but crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry...
Tara Jupp is living out all our dreams: a pop star in Sixties London, surrounded by the glitterati. But can she succeed while holding on to who she is? Country girl Tara is whisked off to Sixties London to become a pop star; there she is dressed, she is shown off at Chelsea parties, photographed by the best. She meets songwriters, singers, designers, and records her song, and falls in love. But behind the buzz and excitement of her success, concern about her beautiful, wild sister Lucy and the bitter relationship with their friend Matilda haunts Tara. Their past friendship is broken, and among the deceptions and the strangeness of both their marriages, the buried secrets keep on reappearing. The brilliant new world of fashion and music, of mini skirts and rock 'n' roll, of the Marquee Club and The Palladium, is also one of love and heartache.
From the author of 'modern vintage classic' The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nostalgic book-club novel about loss, hope and the powerful bond between sisters.
No one expected Marnie Fitzpatrick to be expelled from school . . . but the aftermath will haunt her forever. No one imagined she'd 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.
Lydia works in a museum, dragging kids round the Long Before Man tour. Felix has never worked anywhere and spends his days dragging on cigarettes and writing songs for Moja, his beloved rock group. When they meet, they realise that all you need in common is to be following the same dream. When Lydia offers to manage Moja, she finds four very different people: Justin, the bass player, is as aloof and stoned as the drummer Nicky is sweet and impish. Gorgeous, temperamental lead singer Amber is determined to make Lydia's life as hard as possible. And then there's Felix who, for all his beauty and charm, is as paranoid and insecure as every struggling musician before him. It's a wild journey from the beginning of a dream to making it happen in this stunning first novel that captures the aspirations and soul of a generation bonded by music.
