It is Paris 1939. Twenty-eight-year-old Eva Delctorskaya is at the funeral of her murdered younger brother when she notices a stranger standing among her family and friends. A patrician-looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner, his name is Lucas Romer, and it turns out he has a mysterious connection to her brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is travelling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII.
"It is Paris 1939. Twenty-eight-year-old Eva Delctorskaya is at the funeral of her murdered younger brother when she notices a stranger standing among her family and friends. A patrician-looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner, his name is Lucas Romer, and it turns out he has a mysterious connection to her brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is travelling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII."@en
"It is Paris 1939. Twenty-eight-year-old Eva Delctorskaya is at the funeral of her murdered younger brother when she notices a stranger standing among her family and friends. A patrician-looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner, his name is Lucas Romer, and it turns out he has a mysterious connection to her brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is travelling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII."
"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."
"What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976."
"Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerecruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader."
"When someone tries to kill Sally Gilmartin in 1976, her daughter, Ruth is understandably shocked. Sally explains to her daughter that during the war she was actually a working for the British secret service as a spy. Tricky thing is, her espionage services are required again, and she needs her daughter's help."
"Eva arbeitete im Krieg als Spionin. Dies eröffnet sie ihrer erwachsenen Tochter erst vierzig Jahre später, als sie das Gefühl hat, dass jemand sie umbringen will."
"It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigre 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."@en
"Three decades later the secrets of Sally's past still haunt her. Someone is trying to kill her and at last she has decided to trust Ruth with her story. Ruth, meanwhile, is struggling to make sense of her own life as a young single mother with an unfinished graduate degree and escalating dependence on alcohol. She is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past, the mysterious death of Eva's beloved brother, her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward American involvement in the war, her dangerous romantic entanglement. Now Sally wants to find the man who recruited her for the secret service, and she needs Ruth's help."@en
"When Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity-and the WWII profession-of her aging mother, Sally Gilmartin, at the start of Boyd's elegant ninth novel, Ruth is understandably surprised. Sally, nee Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree living in Paris in 1939, was recruited as a spy by Lucas Romer, the head of a secretive propaganda group called British Security Coordination, to help get America into the war."
"Une jeune femme découvre que sa mère fut, en 1939, une espionne russe à la solde des Anglais. Cette dernière remet à sa fille un manuscrit, un journal où elle relate les années qu'elle a consacrées à l'espionnage, en particulier certains épisodes destinés à favoriser l'entrée en guerre des Etats-Unis. Cette révélation tardive amène à reconsidérer les liens qui unissent les deux personnages, dont l'évolution psychologique est analysée. Le roman alterne passé (la mère livre quelques pages de son journal, à chacune des visites qu'elle rend à sa fille) et présent fictionnels."
""Sénilité précoce, paranoïa? Comment ne pas y penser quand, par un jour de canicule de l'été 1976, votre mère, si anglaise et si digne, vous annonce tout de go qu'elle est en réalité Eva Delectorskaya, une émigrée russe et une ex-espionne de haut vol? Et pourtant, Ruth Gilmartin doit s'y résoudre : tout est vrai."
"In the summer of 1976, Sally Gilmartin turns to her daughter Ruth, a struggling single mother, when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, and is forced to reveal the truth about her past to Ruth, even if it means ruining their relationship forever."
"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 emigre 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
"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 emigre 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."
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