num_pages: 256
description: Ann Bridge was actually Lady Mary Dolling Sanders O'Malley (1889-1974)  a diplomat's wife at the British Legation in Budapest (1940-41). Most of her novels are in large part autobiographical fiction. From dust jacket An exciting suspenseful novel and a tale of escape set in Hungary early in World War II ... the story of a woman's courage and deeply personal conviction as far from home she watches frontier after frontier fall to the enemy....More than a novel of wartime intrigue it is inspiring filled with the beauty of place descriptions and the accuracy about haute monde detail that are the hallmark of Ann Bridge's suspense narratives.
language: English
title: The Tightening String: A Novel
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)