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The Cloisters: The Secret History for a new generation – an instant Sunday Times bestseller

The Cloisters: The Secret History for a new generation – an instant Sunday Times bestseller

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In "The Cloisters", Ann Stilwell is assigned to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gothic museum, The Cloisters. She discovers a mysterious deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards, which leads her to a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship, and ambition.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

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 collection of medieval and Renaissance art. Drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, Ann is happy to indulge some of their more outlandish theories, including the museum's curator, who is fixated on tarot and the real possibility of predicting the future. But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought-lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards, she finds herself at the center of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship, and ambition. And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide who she trusts and who she can ultimately rely on to survive.

The Secret History meets Ninth House in this captivating gothic novel. 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 collection of medieval and Renaissance art. Drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, Ann is happy to indulge some of their more outlandish theories, including the museum's curator, who is fixated on tarot and the real possibility of predicting the future.


But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought-lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards, she finds herself at the center of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship, and ambition. And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide who she trusts and who she can ultimately rely on to survive.


The instant Sunday Times bestseller, January 2023.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 127 x 197 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804990032

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