#197 2 signed copies of Him by Clare Empson + a Penguin Classic copy of Donna Tartt's The Secret History

A wonderful chance to win 2 signed copies of Him by Clare Empson, plus a Penguin Classic copy of The Secret History by Donna Tartt (which partly inspired Clare to write her own novel).

About Him:

'Dark and addictive' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things

'So emotionally true' Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series

'Heartbreaking and beautifully drawn.' Victoria Selman, author of Blood for Blood

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15 years ago, Catherine met the love of her life...

She fell into a passionate love affair at university and they were meant to be together forever.

13 years ago, she married someone else...

She has two children and has moved on from her life with Lucian. Or so she thought.

4 months ago, she stopped speaking to everyone...

She witnessed something so traumatic that the doctors say the only way forward is to look into her past.

This is her story.

About the author:

Clare Empson is a journalist with a background in national newspapers and has worked as a small business editor, finance correspondent and fashion at the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Express. Clare freelances for The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and Tatler amongst others. She currently works as editor/founder of experiential lifestyle website www.countrycalling.co.uk. Him is her debut novel. Her second novel Mine is an exploration of the fraught relationship between a birth mother and her adopted son set against a backdrop of a passionate love affair in the 70s. 

About The Secret History:

A 'haunting, compelling, and brilliant'(The Times) novel about a group of students who, under the influence of their professor find their lives changed forever, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

Truly deserving of the accolade 'modern classic', Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

Under the influence of their charismatic Classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality, their lives are changed profoundly and for ever as they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

'A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth' -The Times