19 February 2017

A Good Read

Restless by William Boyd  depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. 
"I am Eva Delectorskaya” Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie.
Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in a picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone. Three decades later the secrets of Sally’s past still haunt her. Someone is trying to kill her and at last she has decided to trust Ruth with her story. 
Ruth, meanwhile, is struggling to make sense of her own life as a young single mother with an unfinished graduate degree and escalating dependence on alcohol. She is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother’s past—the mysterious death of Eva’s beloved brother, her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward American involvement in the war, her dangerous romantic entanglement. Now Sally wants to find the man who recruited her, and she needs Ruth’s help. 

Restless is a brilliant espionage book, a good story, strong characters and full of tension and drama. I thoroughly enjoyed it, I did get slightly confused when Eva was in America though.


12 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great book, something I would enjoy.

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    1. Hello mama, I would definitely recommend it :-)

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  2. Some books do confuse..having just read the German Girl..I admit to some confusion..Hannah..Anna..back and forth in time periods..events..

    this looks good.

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    1. Sometimes I have to read some passages a second time to fully understand a plot!

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  3. sounds lots of suspense and thrill in this story!
    loved the name specially RESTLESS.that is what makes the day

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    1. Hello Baili, Restless is a good title, as she was restless to be involved helping the war effort.

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  4. Ohhhhh, interesting sounding!

    Have to see if my library system has it.

    Thank you.

    Luna Crone

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    1. It's quite popular and it was made into a film.

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  5. I enjoyed this book as well, Polly.
    Amalia
    xo

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    1. Hello Amalia, it's been made into a film as well, I haven't seen it but would like to, just to see how it was adapted :-)

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  6. This sounds like a book I would really enjoy, as I like WWII stories like this one. I read The Nightingale last summer and absolutely loved it. Have you read that one, Polly?

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    1. Hello Nancy, no I haven't read that one, I have just looked it up on Good Reads and it sounds like one I would enjoy, I will suggest it at my next book club meeting.

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