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Article: The old friend who's a little too familiar; Book of the Week.(Review)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2002
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Byline: CRAIG BROWN
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Bloomsbury pound sterling16.99 pound sterling13.59 (0870 165 0870) ***
At the age of 28, Donna Tartt achieved worldwide success in 1992 with her first novel, The Secret History. It remains a spellbinding work, surely one of the most completely gripping long novels ever written.
Set on a university campus in Vermont, it charts the fortunes of an elite group of classics students who, caught up in a Dionysian rite, murder a farmer and are then faced with the prospect of being found out. It was a chilling, claustrophobic study of the effects of guilt on individuals: its young author seemed to ...