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by Kate Atkinson
A very clever book. About half-way through I started to wonder if the whole thing was meant as a farce - all this bumbling about being spies, saying spy-like things, trying to catch the ‘Right club’s’ Nazi sympathizers, where each meeting seems to have more informants than genuine members; more biscuit-breaks than espionage. On one level it’s hilarious, on another it’s all very sinister. At about the same time, I began to question how reliable our narrator was. Puzzling & engaging at the same time.
I’m not sure I fully comprehended all of the spying and double (triple?) agents or which side who was on....Maybe that’s part of the point (?). But it was a fun book to read & I enjoyed Juliet’s fantastically dry, wry & intelligent inner monologue, not to mention her ice cold veins.
I’m not sure I fully comprehended all of the spying and double (triple?) agents or which side who was on....Maybe that’s part of the point (?). But it was a fun book to read & I enjoyed Juliet’s fantastically dry, wry & intelligent inner monologue, not to mention her ice cold veins.