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She was miserable but did gain something from the job.
Those were the seeds of my interest in propaganda, she said.
The WashingtonPosthad run a piece linking todeclassified documentsabout theCIAsZhivagoplot.
Prescott dove straight down that rabbit hole.
When she entered Michener in the fall of 2015, she hit the ground running.
Further research inspired the love story at the center ofSecrets.
The author turned it into an affair as clandestine and dangerous as spycraft.
What emerged is a blend of romance and political intrigue that parallels Pasternaks.
I wanted to not only tell the complicated story of Boris and Olga, said Prescott.
I wanted to have a love story similar toZhivago,a love that could never be.
Instead, its one of the biggest fiction releases of the year.
The Secrets We Keptis out from Knopf on September 3.
