Celia's Secret, An Investigation

Frayn, Michael ; Burke, David

ISBN 10: 0571205305 / ISBN 13: 9780571205301

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2000., 2000

About this Item

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 110pp, edges slightly browned, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper (price-clipped). ISBN: 0571205305.

Seller Inventory # 30179

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Celia's Secret, An Investigation
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, 2000.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571205305
• ISBN 13: 9780571205301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

About this title

Synopsis

One day during the run of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart. They turn out to mark the start of a long and winding trail.
The subject of Copenhagen is the strange visit that the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, made to his former Danish colleague Niels Bohr in 1941. The two old friends now found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg could not explain to Bohr that he was running the Nazi's secret atomic programme. His intentions have intrigued and baffled historians, and the hitherto unpublished German documents which Celia Rhys-Evans now began to send Michael Frayn cast a new light on certain aspects of the story.

About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His seventeen plays range from Noises Off, recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays, to Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.