A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room.
Mawer's research and attention to period is unmatched, with the uneasy Cold War atmosphere seeping through the page
