The Spy Game [electronic resource]
Harding, Georgina2009
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An unforgettable, suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia 'Harding skilfully weaves together history, memory and imagination in this haunting and beautifully written novel about how, chameleon-like, we construct our own identities' Daily Mail On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was when she's already dead?
Main title:
The Spy Game [electronic resource] / Georgina Harding
Author:
Harding, Georgina, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Georgina Harding is the author of five previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, Painter of Silence, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012; and, most recently, The Gun Room and Land of the Living. Together, The Gun Room, Land of the Living and Harvest make up the critically acclaimed Harvest Cycle. In 2021, her short story 'Night Train' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Georgina lives most of the time on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
ISBN:
9781408806746
Language:
English
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BRN:
2788139
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