{"product_id":"9780701185343","title":"A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Michael Holroyd's \u003ci\u003eA Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone and one man unite them all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis elegiac work is about the quest of unearthing and recounting the stories of women always on the periphery of the respectable world--from Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West. \u003cbr\u003eAlso on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009952301296,"sku":"9780701185343","price":22.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780701185343_p0.jpg?v=1763615686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780701185343","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}