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Quality
Im going to give the book five stars still as the quality of the writing was on the whole so high and the story excellent and ... Read More
I think the parallels to the railway children drew particular attention to problems with the childrens characterisation here as... Read More
Simon is arrested for espionage and poor lily is left with the three children
Loved the writing too in step with the characters
Competitiveness
I also liked the echoes of the classic novel the railway children in the book it was interesting to have a cold war narrative ... Read More
I liked the evocation of the 1960s world
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Compelling narrative about characters and situations and politics within a secret service department
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Lily and her mother escaped nazi germany when lily was still a child
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This and simon and lilys reactions lead to simon being arrested as a potential russian spy
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Lily and her children are scapegoated in their neighbourhood and ultimately forced to leave london for a new life in kent where lily struggles to reestablish herself and to prove simons innocence
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I also liked the echoes of the classic novel the railway children in the book it was interesting to have a cold war narrative told from an ordinary familys rather than a spys point of view
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Its also made me eager to read the few dunmore novels i still have unread the betrayal the lie birdcage walk and very sad that there wont be any more
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In the incriminating files that lily buries at the start of the novel with the maggots eating away at the leather satchel containing them a symbol of necrotic empire lurks hidden away in dark earth