The Little Friend is a densely-written, slow-moving novel. Harriet has decided that she will discover who has killed her brother because while she is neither pretty or sweet, Harriet is smart. On Mother’s Day, when Harriet is just an infant, her older brother, Robin, is found hanging from a tree in the yard. (It’s over 600 pages long.) It concerns 12 year old Harriet Dufresnes. Th e Little Friend is a gorgeous book, certainly a book to linger over. There’s no doubt, Tartt is a talented writer. I wonder if I’ll be saying the same thing about The Little Friend in 20 years? Having recently finished her second novel (and I believe there was almost ten years between the two books), I now have an overwelming desire to re-read The Secret History to see if it’s as good as I remember. Almost 20 years ago I stumbled upon Donna Tartt’s fantastic novel The Secret History, a novel which has stayed with me all these years.
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