Tightrope

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407 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4087-0621-3
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OCLC Number:
910904480

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3 stars (1 review)

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.

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3 stars

Continues the story of Marian Sutro from the end of World War 2 to the Cold War in the 50s. I don't know, I just didn't care for it as much as I did for the first book. Marian is written very unemotionally so it's hard to relate to her as a sympathetic character. I just couldn't relate to her and her actions very well. It's the writing that kept me reading, not the story.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Young women
  • Intelligence officers
  • Special operations (Military science)
  • History

Places

  • Great Britain
  • England