The Burning Secret
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3.9 • 26 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A suave baron takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer to the woman he desires. The initially unsuspecting child soon senses something is amiss, but has no idea of the burning secret that is driving the affair, and that will soon change his life for ever.
Customer Reviews
The burning secret
This cleverly written novella is ripe with fin-de-siècle morals and mores. Told in the third person, the central person of the story turns out to be a twelve year old child learning, with difficulty , about the adult world. It is an easy and entertaining read, with a little twist at the end which puts you in mind of that other great Viennese of the period, Zigmund Freud.