{"product_id":"the-cloisters-the-secret-history-for-a-new-generation-an-instant-sunday-times-bestseller","title":"The Cloisters: The Secret History for a new generation – an instant Sunday Times bestseller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eNinth House\u003c\/i\u003e in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Beguiling and atmospheric, an entrancing and gripping tale.'\u003c\/b\u003e KATE MOSSE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Glamour, power, seduction, ambition - \u003ci\u003eThe Cloisters\u003c\/i\u003e has it all. I adored this deliciously gothic, beautifully written novel.'\u003c\/b\u003e LOUISE O'NEILL, author of \u003ci\u003eIdol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e **********\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval and Renaissance collections.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e There she is drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, each with their own secrets and desires, including the museum's curator, Patrick Roland, who is convinced that the history of Tarot holds the key to unlocking contemporary fortune telling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Relieved to have left her troubled past behind and eager for the approval of her new colleagues, Ann is only too happy to indulge some of Patrick's more outlandish theories. But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards she suddenly finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide whether she is truly able to defy the cards and shape her own future . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBringing together the modern and the arcane, \u003ci\u003eThe Cloisters\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, thrillingly-told tale of obsession and the ruthless pursuit of power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e **********\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Dark and enigmatic . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Cloisters\u003c\/i\u003e captured me from the off. . . a story of academic obsession, Renaissance magic and the ruthless pursuit of power. 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