The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Hardcover

Simon Mawer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408703505 ISBN 13: 9781408703502

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2012

Synopsis

The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, 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 France with an urgent mission - This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He has lived with his wife in Italy for more than 20 years, and he teaches at the English School in Rome.

Review:

'Remarkable... haunting and mysterious' DAILT TELEGRAPH 'One of the very cleverest books of the year, about love and loss and art and war - A stunningly crafted piece of fiction' EVENING STANDARD

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408703505
• ISBN 13: 9781408703502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302