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Restless - by William Boyd (Paperback)

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  • A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter.
  • About the Author: William Boyd is the author of eight novels, including A Good Man in Africa and Any Human Heart, three collections of short stories, and thirteen screenplays that have been filmed.
  • 336 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers

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In this absorbing historical thriller . . . Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.--"The New Yorker."



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A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation.

Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sundance Channel and the BBC starring Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell.

It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII.

Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. She is now Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque Cotswold village. No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real identity. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally has far too many secrets, and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help.

Restless is a thrilling espionage novel set during the Second World War and a haunting portrait of a female spy.



Review Quotes




"An absorbing historical thriller." ---, New Yorker

"Superbly written...one of the most smoothly readable novels of the year." ---, Chicago Tribune

"[An] espionage thriller and domestic drama by one of the very best prose stylists and storytellers in the English language." ---, Atlantic Monthly

"The quality of Boyd's prose and the insight he brings to the story make Restless resonate." ---, San Francisco Chronicle

"A gripping and smartly crafted spy thriller set against a fascinating and largely hidden episode in U.S.-British relations." ---, Washington Post




About the Author



William Boyd is the author of eight novels, including A Good Man in Africa and Any Human Heart, three collections of short stories, and thirteen screenplays that have been filmed. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Novel Award, the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. He lives with his wife in London and southwest France.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.26 Inches (H) x 5.52 Inches (W) x .94 Inches (D)
Weight: .72 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Thrillers
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Theme: Historical
Format: Paperback
Author: William Boyd
Language: English
Street Date: June 5, 2007
TCIN: 1002818674
UPC: 9781596912373
Item Number (DPCI): 247-30-0352
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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