The Hidden

The Hidden

by TobiasHill (Author)

Synopsis

In Sparta, a city that masks age-old secrets and private enmities, a close-knit group are excavating. They are a potent and seductive mix: Natsuko, beautiful and mysterious; Jason, restless and menacing; Eberhard, commanding, aloof and fiercely intelligent. When Ben, lost and aimless, comes to Greece to escape private failures, he is inevitably drawn to them, thrilled by the idea of acceptance and excited by the dangerous games they play. But there is more to the group than Ben understands and he finds out too late that some things should remain hidden. He must decide where his loyalties lie - before the decision is taken for him. Powerful and gripping, "The Hidden" is a novel of the secrets we keep, the ties that bind us and the true cost of following our desires.

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More Information

Format: Perfect Paperback
Pages: 477
Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd.
Published: Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 0571241514
ISBN 13: 9780571241514
Book Overview: A gripping story of secrets and extremes, and how the past is always closer than you think ...

Media Reviews
In The Hidden, Tobias Hill deals with a landscape even more dominated by the past. In this case it is contemporary Greece and the city of Sparta where Ben Mercer, on the run from England and a broken relationship, arrives. His colleagues on the dig are an unsettling group and events more towards an inevitable confrontation with terror. -- Rodney Troubridge Bookseller's Choice, The Bookseller 20081010
Author Bio
Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one the best young writers in Britain: in 2004 he was selected as one of the country's Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories Skin won the PEN-Macmillan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. The Cryptographer, his third novel, was called 'supremely elegant' in the Sunday Times.