description: Growing up in post-war Paris the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents for himself a make-believe - older, stronger, &amp; more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realise that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor.
language: English
title: Secret
titlecomplete: Secret
genres: Historical, War, School, Holocaust, French Literature, Roman, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 4815
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle
category: roman, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
publisher: Portobello Books Ltd