'Ian McEwan did this with Atonement, Sarah Waters did it with The
Night Watch, and Chris Cleave does it too with Everyone Brave is
Forgiven... A compelling and finely crafted novel.' FT 'An
addictive, propulsive read' The Sunday Times Summer Reading pick -
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train Top Ten hottest
summer reads - Sunday Telegraph Instant New York Times Bestseller
Evening Standard bestseller 'A cracker' Stylist, 10 Exciting Books
in 2016 'His best book to date' Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016
Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016 Independent Best Book to read
in 2016 Irish News Top Picks for 2016 Washington Post 20 Books We
Can't Wait to Read in 2016 An extraordinary tale of love and honour
in extreme circumstances, from the multi-award-winning author of
THE OTHER HAND. When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing
school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.
Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate Alistair
unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.
Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy.
When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds
herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would
rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for
Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war,
that will test them in ways they could not have imagined,
entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and
deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams. In a powerful
combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel
weaves little-known history, and a perfect love story, through the
vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that,
against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate
losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us
most.
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