An utterly gripping tale of love and espionage in Occupied France by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room (Daily Mail)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, the Special Operations Executive, to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status and fluent French will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.Trained in sabotage, deaddrops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into southwest France, her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must seek out family friend Clment Pelletier, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon, he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange, lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion, what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted.There are many shades of Graham Greene here... [The Girl Who Fell From the Sky] delivers its story with the same delicate, stroppedrazor deadliness that creeps up on you like Harry Lime in the shadows, nastily irresistible Financial TimesMawer cranks up the tension as spy stuff this is as good as Le Carr...

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 370 g; Dimensions: 197 x 136 x 24

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