The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
$24.46
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2013
Summary
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.
Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349000060 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349000069 |
| Author: | Simon Mawer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Marian Sutro |
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Such rewarding reading … Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary writer
Masterly … A tour de force that grips and never lets go - Mail on Sunday - Max Davidson
I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done. Mawer’s set pieces are so beautiful you want to read them two or three times over. He writes about fear and about bravery better than any contemporary novelist I know - Observer - Rachel CookeSuch rewarding reading … Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary writer - Financial Times - Simon SchamaIf you only read one book this year, read this one - Scotsman - Allan MassieAbout The Author
Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He now lives with his wife and two children in Italy, and teaches at the English School in Rome.
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