Published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks, London, UK, 2006
ISBN 10: 1408891379 ISBN 13: 9781408891377
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy. This espionage novel, of spies, lies & intimate family relationships, and supported by historical, real-life events from Scottish novelist William Boyd (1952 -), winner of the Costa Prize for fiction, was adapted to BBC television, 2012. Narrated in two voices --- that of mother and daughter; a virtual hall of mirrors in which deception is the norm. Story of Russian-born Eva Delectorskaya in Paris, 1939, who, at 28 years old meets, at her brother's funeral, attractive stranger, Lucas Romer. Soon Eva is in love and finds herself off to Scotland to be trained as a spy & underground work. Three decades later, Eva, having buried her past, is now living respectively as an English widow known as Sally Gilmartin. But, once a spy? Daughter Ruth, discovers, 1970, of her mother's concealed identity within the context of World War II. A novel not excluding double agents & assignations within ranks, spans London, Oxford, Scotland, Europe, and the US.
Published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks, London, UK, 2016
ISBN 10: 1408852896 ISBN 13: 9781408852897
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 508 pages. B&W plates. Clean paperback cover with light wear to spine-ends and covers' corners. Page-edges lightly browned o/w pages very clean.