RaveVulture... propulsive storytelling and evocative mid-century detail ... It might be fashionable for writers of historical fiction to downplay their research, but Prescott openly flaunts its impact, not only on the plot of The Secrets We Kept but also on its structure and voice ... Though Secrets has already been described as a \'spy thriller,\' it evokes Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt and Mary McCarthy’s The Group more than anything by Ian Fleming. It feels like something that would have been relegated to the \'cult\' genre or published under a pen name had it been written in the ’50s. Instead, it’s one of the biggest fiction releases of the year.
