Restless

William Boyd

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It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.

Reviews

"...a good, rollicking read." Marianne MacDonald, The Guardian
"As you would expect, William Boyd has turned out an impeccably written book. You simply couldn't fault his prose and seldom has genre fiction been given such an artistic, elegant gloss." Jill Murphy, thebookbag.com
"...what makes ‘Restless’ great is its indifference to literariness, and how content it is to be simply (simply!) a riveting tale of wartime derring-do which suggests Sebastian Faulks’s flaccid Charlotte Gray souped up by John Le Carré." John O'Connell, Time Out London
"In this superb novel, Boyd deftly interweaves the wartime tale of derring-do, of bluff and double bluff, of aliases and murder, with Ruth’s rather more mundane life as an Oxford-based teacher." Ian Critchley, TimesOnline