Questa serie segue il viaggio di una giovane coraggiosa che attraversa la tumultuosa era della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. I lettori vengono trasportati in un mondo ricco di incredibili avventure, dove il romanticismo si intreccia con la minaccia del tradimento. Le narrazioni esplorano la ricerca del proprio posto in un mondo segnato dal conflitto globale. Offre uno sguardo profondo sulla resilienza umana e sul desiderio d'amore in mezzo alle avversità.
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 to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect and this is another compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.