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Zusatztext 'Many writers! from Harper Lee to Suzanne Berne! have explored children's skewed view of the adult world. Georgina Harding has equalled their take ... Elegant ... Lucid! seamless' Informationen zum Autor Georgina Harding is the author of five previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave , The Spy Game , a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, Painter of Silence , shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012; and, most recently, The Gun Room and Land of the Living . Together, The Gun Room , Land of the Living and Harvest make up the critically acclaimed Harvest Cycle. In 2021, her short story 'Night Train' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Georgina lives most of the time on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex. Klappentext Paperback edition of the suspenseful novel about childhood! grief and Cold War paranoia. From the author of "The Solitude Of Thomas Cave"! it will appeal to fans of "Restless" by William Boyd and "Spies" by Michael Frayn. '...she lays an image down so gently that it floats in the mind long after' Margaret Forster An unforgettable, suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia Zusammenfassung On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive.
