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Restless a novel

In 1976, a single mother learns that her mother was actually a Russian emigre working for the British Secret Service during WWII and that someone is now trying to kill her.

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  • "In 1976, a single mother learns that her mother was actually a Russian emigre working for the British Secret Service during WWII and that someone is now trying to kill her."@en
  • "Three decades after her time as a British Secret Service spy before WWII 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.--"@en
  • "Oxford, England 1976. Ruth Gilmartin, a single mother and graduate student, uncovers her mother's memoir. Her mother describes her secret past, involving her role with the British secret service during World War II and her exile out of England. Before Ruth can process her mother's startling truths, she compulsively commences a precarious mission to find the person who betrayed her mother so long ago."
  • "Detective and mystery stories. 'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. 'Who's that?' 'Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya. What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother Sally is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian migrant and one-time spy. In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious, patrician Englishman. Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one. Even those sheloves most. Since then Eva has carefully rebuilt her life - but once a spy, always a spy. Ruth discovers her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can't do it alone: she needs Ruth's help. Restless is a tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal it is a gripping novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest."@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories. 'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. 'Who's that?' 'Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya. What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother Sally is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian migrant and one-time spy. In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious, patrician Englishman. Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one. Even those sheloves most. Since then Eva has carefully rebuilt her life - but once a spy, always a spy. Ruth discovers her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can't do it alone: she needs Ruth's help. Restless is a tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal it is a gripping novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest."
  • "It is the summer of 1976 in Oxfordshire, England, and someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. The only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. Sally Gilmartin had buried many secrets along with the name Eva Delectorskaya, including her work manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward U.S. involvement in the Second World War and her dangerous love affair with another spy. Now Ruth is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past."@en
  • "In the summer of 1976, someone is trying to kill ex-spy, Sally Gilmartin. Sally turns to her daughter, Ruth, the only person she can trust, and tells her the truth about her past."
  • "Three decades after her time as a British Secret Service spy before WWII 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."@en
  • "In the summer of 1976, someone it trying to kill ex-spy, Sally Gilmartin. Sally turns to her daughter Ruth, the only person she can trust, and tells her the truth about her past."@en
  • "When Sally Gilmartin's life is threatened, she must turn to her daughter Ruth for help. But first Sally must reveal the truth about her past: she is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré once recruited by the British Secret Service during World War II. Though Ruth is struggling with her own demons, she is now drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past."@en
  • "Someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. It is the summer of 1976, and the only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. Soon Ruth is drawn deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past, including her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward U.S. involvement in Second World War and her dangerous love affair with another spy. Ruth also discovers that her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can't do it alone--she needs Ruth's help."
  • ""I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in a picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy. Three decades later, someone is trying to kill Sally and at last Ruth, now a young single mother with an unfinished graduate degree and escalating dependence on alcohol, is drawn into her mother's dark past."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Talking books"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en

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  • "Restless [sound recording (CD)]"
  • "Restless a novel"
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  • "Restless"
  • "Restless"@en
  • "Restless [TBCD]"

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