Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Restless is an espionage novel written by William Boyd, published in 2006. It won the Costa Prize for fiction. The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. The book continually switches between time periods and, in doing so, from first to third person.
- William Boyd
- 2006
When someone tries to kill her three decades after being trained as a spy, Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow living in a quiet Cotswold village, decides to reveal the truth about her past to her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother with a growing problem with alcohol, who is given the task of finding the man who recruited Sally for t...
- (7)
5. Juni 2007 · Restless: A Novel. Paperback – June 5, 2007. RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. in December, 2012. It is Paris, 1939.
- (7,6K)
- $16.49
- William Boyd
- William Boyd
20. Mai 2009 · A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation.
- (7,6K)
- $16.00
- William Boyd
- $3.99Save $12.01 (75%)
8. Okt. 2006 · Having lived her life in that murky, edgy world of compromise, Eva never ceases to scan the horizon with restless, trustless eyes, watching, waiting and suspecting.
A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation.
With mounting fear, Sally confides with her daughter Ruth; a woman struggling with her own past. Sally drops a bombshell. She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited as a spy by the British prior to the Second World War.
- William Boyd
