Tightrope
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Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life.
Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life.
Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.
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Praise for Tightrope
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Praise for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Streamlined and tautly paced...Mawer...always keep[s] the pace brisk, the underlying tension high - GuardianAs good as Le Carre...I have rarely read a novel that made fear so acute, so tangible...A novel of high intelligence and creative imagination, strong in plot and wonderfully atmospheric - Allan Massie, The ScotsmanAn absorbing novel full of treachery, twilight and terror - TelegraphA stark, focused adventure...[A] skillfully and intelligently executed thriller - Washington PostPraise for The Glass RoomThe Glass Room is a superlative work of art: a novel replete with ideas that is also, thanks to a throbbing great engine of a plot, incredibly exciting and moving. - Observer
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