Book Review: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott (Prescott)

I learned so much about author Boris Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Olga, who was the inspiration for Lara in Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, was sent to the Gulag for refusing to divulge what Pasternak was writing about in the book taking him over a decade to write. The chapters alternated between Olga’s perspective & that of two women serving as American spies. Americans worked hard to get copies of Doctor Zhivago to Russian citizens behind the Iron Curtain, hoping to create turmoil by Russians being angry about the book being banned in their home country.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles or The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch.]

[ official The Secrets We Kept and Lara Prescott web site ]

Recommended by Jodi R.
Anderson and Bethany Branch Libraries

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