A review by emmkayt
The Innocent by Ian McEwan

4.0

A young, naive British Post Office worker becomes involved in tunnelling under the Soviet sector in 1950s Berlin, and find himself transformed both by this experience and by his first love affair, with a German divorcee. At first, it's a Cold War spy story along Le Carre lines, then elements of [b:On Chesil Beach|815309|On Chesil Beach|Ian McEwan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178649691s/815309.jpg|1698999] come into the mix, then it becomes unexpectedly rather grisly for a while. I ended up finding it increasingly hard to put down.