The spy game
By: Georgina Harding
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781408801000
Subjects: Cold War; Psychological aspects; Missing persons; Mother and child; War; Fiction
Description: On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was once she is dead?
Notes: Originally published: 2009.