_______________’In a literary age of diet and dearth, Tartt invites us to feast … the opening tragedy strikes a note of rich, flamboyant Southern Gothic that resonates throughout’ – Independent’You will rarely have read better … Because of Tartt’s mastery of suspense, this book will grip readers all the way through to its bitter end’ – Guardian’Destined to become a special kind of classic – a book that precocious young readers pluck from their parents’ shelves and devour with surreptitious eagerness, thrilled to discover a writer who seems at once to read their minds and to offer up the sweet-and-sour fruits of exotic, forbidden knowledge’ – New York Times Book Review_______________Donna Tartt’s huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller The Secret HistoryThe sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, ab