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Tightrope

ID 290309
Slug tightrope-simon-mawer
Contributors
Author : Simon Mawer
Annotation
Description A brilliant cold war spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass Room, continuing the story of Marian Sutro from The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect and this is another compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.
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301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
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Publisher Little, Brown
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Language eng
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Publication date first 2015-05-18
Publication date latest 2015-05-18
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  • ISBN: 9781408706206 (BC)

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