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Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Simon Mawer
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Description for Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Paperback. The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of THE GLASS ROOM Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 298.
An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail) Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE, the Special Operations Executive, to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous ... Read more
An 'utterly gripping' tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail) Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE, the Special Operations Executive, to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349000060
SKU
V9780349000060
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Ref
99-10
About Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years, and taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently live in Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including ... Read more
Reviews for Girl Who Fell from the Sky
If you only read one book this year, read this one
Allan Massie
Scotsman
Such rewarding reading . . . Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary writer
Simon Schama
Financial Times
I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done. Mawer's set pieces are so beautiful you want to ... Read more
Allan Massie
Scotsman
Such rewarding reading . . . Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary writer
Simon Schama
Financial Times
I read late into the night and cried a little when I was done. Mawer's set pieces are so beautiful you want to ... Read more