"A stupendous feat of storytelling" Mail on Sunday."Atmospheric, intricately plotted and genuinely gripping" The Times.Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most.
Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. Read the book, watch the film and decide how well the BBC have done it.Īnd if your appetite needs whetting, you can watch the trailer.
The television version goes out on 27 and 28 December and stars Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary from Downtown), Charlotte Rampling, Rufus Sewell and Michael Gambon. For several this was the first time we had read a spy novel.Our book club pick for December is Restless by William Boyd, which very happily coincides with a BBC television adaptation over Christmas. Whakatane 012 Most of us really enjoyed Restless. Liked that the story was of two 'strong' women and another side of war - English spies in the USA. Te Pahu 001 This would be one of our favourite reads. Greytown 001 We all enjoyed Restless as a 'light adult spy novel'. Martinborough 001 This was a brilliant book enjoyed by all the group - gripping, insightful, and beautifully crafted. We liked the unusual fact of having a female spy, the suspense, the mystery, the entwined stories of mother and daughter and the ending. Ruth is swept into a dangerous game: finding her mother's betrayer before it's too late. Ruth's mother was eventually betrayed, and forced to flee to England and live under an assumed identity. Sally, nee Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian migrant living in Paris in 1939, was recruited as a spy by the head of a secretive propaganda group called British Security Coordination, a covert branch of British Intelligence created to coax America into the Second World War. When Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity and the WWII profession of her ageing mother, Sally, she is understandably surprised.
0 kommentar(er)
