2019 book 89

Eva Rice's The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
I saw this recommended recently, and was like, hm, that seems like it could be good, let's look it up, at which point I discovered that I'd bought it like seven years ago and never read it. Maybe it was fate?? Anyway, the story is set in the 1950s, a classic sort of coming of age novel about a young girl in a crumbling Medieval castle, her family, her new friends, romance, pop music, etc. (Comparisons to I Capture the Castle are fairly apt.) This is not a great work of literature or anything, but it was an engaging yet gentle sort of story. I did think the epilogue was a bit weak--either give it a whole chapter or leave it out entirely--but on the whole enjoyed this a lot. B+.