On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive.
Paperback edition of the suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia. From the author of "The Solitude Of Thomas Cave", it will appeal to fans of "Restless" by William Boyd and "Spies" by Michael Frayn. '...she lays an image down so gently that it floats in the mind long after' Margaret Forster
'Many writers, from Harper Lee to Suzanne Berne, have explored children's skewed view of the adult world. Georgina Harding has equalled their take ... Elegant ... Lucid, seamless'
