The Secret History Book

A strangely elegaic and disturbing novel of psychological suspense. The first person narrator is a young californian boy who escapes an impoverished background to attend a small college in new england where he falls in with a group of upper-class boys and one girl who all study ancient greek under the tutelage of julian their mesmeric teacher. Attempting to create a true bacchanal four of their number work themselves into a trance-like condition and come to discover that they have murdered a local farmer. Then bunny who was not involved begins to blackmail the others and our narrator is drawn into a plot to cover up the original crime and to silence bunny.

The Secret History : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140167771 : : 01 Jul 1995 : 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.