Tightrope
$36.60
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2016
Summary
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn’t understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349140742 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034914074X |
| Author: | Simon Mawer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Marian Sutro |
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Mawer is a skilful writer and this is a sophisticated, deviously constructed story of a woman who finds her true self in the distorting mirrors of the intelligence game - Sunday Times
Mawer’s evocation of poor, battered post-war London, still a drab city of thick and clammy fogs, is beautifully done. Likewise he handles his plot, moving back and forward in time, in masterly fashion … Mawer blows the dust off the history and makes it matter as you read. He is one of the most accomplished novelists today - ScotsmanMawer sensitively evokes the crushing normality of postwar Britain … intriguing, often lyrical - The TimesSimon Mawer is a true master of literary espionage … Tightrope is gripping stuff - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years while he taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently divide their time between Italy and Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Tightrope and Prague Spring.
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