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The Book of Secrets

A Novel

Elizabeth Arnold

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English
Bantam Books Inc
15 July 2013
At once a captivating mystery, a love letter to classic literature, and a sharp-eyed examination of marriage, The Book of Secrets is a gripping novel of family, friendship, and the undeniable pull of the past.

After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he returned to his and Chloes childhood town of Redbridge, California a place brimming with memories of young love and unspeakable loss, and a place Chloe never wants to see again.

Tending to their small bookstore while trying to reach her vanished husband, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside Nate's ancient copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Written in a code that Nate and his sisters created as children using passages from their favorite books to scramble hidden messages in the text ;the pages contain long-buried secrets from Chloe's and Nate's past, and clues to why he's gone back to Redbridge after all these years. As Chloe reunites with Nate's family and struggles to decipher the notebook's

hidden messages, she revisits the seminal moments of their youth- the day she met the enigmatic Sinclair children and learned what a magical escape books could be from a troubled childhood; the first time Nate, camped out on a beach like Robinson Crusoe, kissed her; the elaborate plan the young couple devised, inspired by Romeo and Juliet, to break free from Nate'soppressive father, and how the thwarted attempt upended their lives forever. And as the reason for Nate's absence comes to light, the truth will shatter everything Chloe knows—about her husband, his family, and herself.

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Imprint:   Bantam Books Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   329g
ISBN:   9780553592535
ISBN 10:   055359253X
Pages:   464
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Elizabeth Joy Arnold is the author of The Book of Secrets, When We Were Friends, Pieces of My Sisters Life, and Promise the Moon. She was raised in New York, and has degrees from Vassar College and Princeton University. She lives with her husband and daughter in Pennington, New Jersey, where she is at work on her next novel.

Reviews for The Book of Secrets: A Novel

An exquisite novel . . . The Book of Secrets is one of those reasons some of us live to read. -- The Star-Ledger Tender and transcendent, The Book of Secrets is about the truths we hide, the consequences we face, and the particular comfort we can only find in a good book. Elizabeth Joy Arnold has written a beautiful and haunting ode to the power of words, and how they shape our lives. --Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of The Peach Keeper The Book of Secrets plunges the reader into the strange and intense world of the Sinclairs, a family bound and pulled apart by the forces of imagination and religious belief. Through the eyes of Chloe Tyler, trapped in this world since childhood, Arnold paints a fascinating picture of obsession and loss. The Book of Secrets offers a complex meditation on the elusive nature of truth and on the power of secrets. --Henriette Lazaridis Power, author of The Clover House This is the beautiful and heart-wrenching story about the secrets that can both hold a marriage together, and drive two people apart. Reading The Book of Secrets is like walking through a dark labyrinth: just when all hope is lost, you step out into sunshine. --Carla Buckley, author of Invisible


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