Tightrope

Author: Simon Mawer

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Price : 38.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781408706206
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint : Little, Brown
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Weight (g) : 0.538
Publication date : 01 January 2015
Dimensions : 234mm X 153mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Description

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.

Awards

Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2016.

Author description

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.

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