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Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life?
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Women spies, Fiction, Military intelligence, English Authors, Cold War, NEW LIST 20121231, Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978, Spy stories, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Engels, Suspense fiction, History, Large type books, Authors, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-12-02, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, thrillers, espionagePlaces
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An Anglican bishop's daughter gets in over her head with British Intelligence in this John le Carre-esque caper from the author of Atonement. Brash, bookish Serena just might make a perfect spy-if she can keep her heart under wraps.
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