by WilliamBoyd (Author)
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0747586209
ISBN 13: 9780747586203
Book Overview: For fans of Enigma by Robert Harris, Atonement by Ian McEwan and Spies by Michael Frayn Restless is the winner of the Best Novel category of the Costa Book Awards Winner of the Yorkshire Post's Book of the Year Fiction Prize Nominated for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Prizes: Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007 and Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007.