The Secrets We Kept
Two secretaries at the CIA are drawn into the Cold War plot to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the Soviet Union.
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In 1956 Washington, the CIA's Soviet Russia Division recruits typist Irina Drozdova for a covert operation to smuggle copies of Boris Pasternak's banned novel Doctor Zhivago into the USSR. Across Moscow, Pasternak's longtime mistress Olga Ivinskaya pays for the manuscript with years in a Gulag camp.
Yes. The Secrets We Kept is fictionalized history of the CIA's covert smuggling of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago manuscript out of the Soviet Union and its publication abroad. Lara Prescott researched declassified CIA records.
No. The Secrets We Kept is independent of Doctor Zhivago, though readers familiar with Pasternak's novel get more out of the references. Each works on its own.
The Secrets We Kept was written by Lara Prescott, published in 2019 by Anchor Canada.
The Secrets We Kept is 408 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Secrets We Kept takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
The Secrets We Kept is a standalone novel by Lara Prescott, not part of a series.
The Secrets We Kept is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
