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Restless: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006 - Hardcover

Boyd, William

 
9780747585718: Restless: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747585717 ISBN 13: 9780747585718
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. ' Who's that?'
'Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya.'

What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother Sally is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré and one-time spy.

In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious, patrician Englishman. Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one. Even those she loves most.

Since then Eva has carefully rebuilt her life - but once a spy, always a spy. And now she must complete one last assignment. This time, though, Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.

Restless is a tour de force. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal William Boyd's gripping novel captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a BAFTA-winning Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire PostNovel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise and, most recently, Solo, a James Bond novel. William Boyd lives in London and France

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747585717
ISBN 13 
9780747585718
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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