It’s London in 1960 and the Cold War is at its height with spy fever filling the newspapers and the country. After a file goes missing, a man is accused and arrested by the government for treason. The lives of his family and another agent are intimately involved in this top notch psychological thriller-drama. Dunmore’s impressive storytelling and gentle, emotional prose kept the story moving and alive. I immersed in her 1960’s English world of post-WWII and Cold War mentality and spirit. I was drawn into the characters with relative ease and they became warm, flawed, and deeply human. This story focused more on characters than story and, although the action was minimal, it presented at vital moments.
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