'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves - seriously, what could be more heavenly?' Saga It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort. The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios. At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.
Louise Levene Ordine dei libri
Louise Levene crea racconti deliziosamente malvagi e spiritosi che approfondiscono gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana, mescolando temi di scandalo, desiderio e le inaspettate intersezioni tra scienza e società. Le sue narrazioni sono caratterizzate da uno stile acuto e incisivo che cattura le complessità della vita sia storica che contemporanea. La voce unica di Levene offre un avvincente mix di intrattenimento e commento perspicace sulle follie e i trionfi dei suoi personaggi. Il suo lavoro invita i lettori in mondi dove prevalgono l'intrigo e l'osservazione intelligente.



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- 2011
An Education meets The Talented Mr Ripley in dark comic gem of a novel that recreates the grubby glamour of early sixties LondonA BBC Radio Four Book at Bedtime