The Secrets She Keeps

My Summer of Love has sold over 17,000 copies to date Helen Cross is one of our most exciting young British writers - like Zoe Heller, Trezza Azzopardi or Ali Smith The film of My Summer of Love by Pawel Pawlikowski (director of The Last Resort) won the BAFTA award for Best British Film in 2005

A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the acclaimed author of My Summer of LoveNineteen-year-old John has been plucked from his small-time London life to be the famous Misty Moore's nanny while she hides out - post-pregnancy - in a crumbling mansion in Wychwood, in deepest Yorkshire. He is dazzled by his change of fortune, by Misty's impossible breasts and most of all by the heartbreaking Hepsie Vine, who is mysteriously bound to Misty. But there's more to his job than just glamour and decadence. For the village of Wychwood comes with the dank trace of secrets and Misty, of course, has plenty of her own...