
Burning Secret
“Breathtaking … unlike anything I have ever read before” — The Guardian
The Burning Secret is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story – a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig.
A suave baron, bored on holiday, takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, t...
“Breathtaking … unlike anything I have ever read before” — The Guardian
The Burning Secret is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story – a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig.
A suave baron, bored on holiday, takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, t...