Restless A Novel

by Boyd, William

• ISBN13: 9781596912373
• ISBN10: 1596912375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. It is the summer of 1976, and the only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. Soon Ruth is drawn deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past, including her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward U.S. involvement in Second World War and her dangerous love affair with another spy. Ruth also discovers that her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can't do it alone--she needs Ruth's help. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest.

Author Biography

William Boyd is the author of eight novels, including A Good Man in Africa and Any Human Heart, three collections of short stories, and thirteen screenplays that have been filmed. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Novel Award, the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. He lives with his wife in London and southwest France.

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“An absorbing historical thriller.”—The New Yorker

 

“Superbly written…one of the most smoothly readable novels of the year.”—Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

“[An] espionage thriller and domestic drama by one of the very best prose stylists and storytellers in the English language.”—Atlantic Monthly

“The quality of Boyd's prose and the insight he brings to the story make Restless resonate. Told in his characteristically unobtrusive and elegant tone—[Boyd] explores the very idea of spying...”—Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle

“A gripping and smartly crafted spy thriller set against a fascinating and largely hidden episode in U.S.-British relations.”—John Dalton, Washington Post