Tightrope
By: Simon Mawer
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: WF Howes Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9781510006263
Subjects: Fiction; Young women; Intelligence officers; Special operations (Military science); History
Description: Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the atomic bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie?
Notes: The sequel to Simon Mawer's Man Booker shortlisted novel Trapeze (or The Girl Who Fell From the Sky).