Advance coverThe Deep and Secret Things
A Novel
21 September 2027 · United States
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A new historical epic from a novelist whose work has repeatedly turned large social change into intimate, propulsive storytelling.
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Ken Follett's Victorian-era epic follows Helena Bowen, a noblewoman from South Wales, through a world divided by wealth, poverty, strict convention, and hidden desire.
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