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Secret by Philippe Grimbert Translated from the French by Polly McLean

Fiction.
Published March 2007.
Hardback (129mm x 198mm).
£12.00.
160 pages.
ISBN: 978 1 84627 043 7


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Based on the author's own family history and already a colossal best-seller in Europe, UK readers are now being let in on the story of a family haunted by the secrets of their past: an illicit love affair, a lost child, and a devastating betrayal dating back to the Second World War.

The day after I turned fifteen, I finally discovered what I'd always known...

Growing up in post-war Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe brother, older, stronger, and more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realise that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor: a half-brother whose death in the concentration camps is part of a buried family secret that he was intended never to uncover.