Buy this book on-line BOYD**, WILLIAM: : RESTLESSLONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC.,2006. ISBN 0747585717.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,b/w photographic front panel with glossy, grey and red lettering,thumbnail repeated b/w photograph to head of spine/backstrip with red+black lettering to remainder of same, rear panel red with b/w lettered critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges aged/toned; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked red fluorescent gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a red+black striped headband,a sewn-in black silk bookmark ribbon,and immaculate/clean plain red sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1- 325pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,prose extract (Marcel Proust,The Guermantes Way) with blank reverse,a sewn-in black bookmark ribbon,and to the rear as last page,a note on author and a note on type to its reverse.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the toning that prevents a higher grading.
'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. ' Who's that?' 'Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya.'
What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976,Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother Sally is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy.
In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris.As war breaks out,she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer,a mysterious, patrician Englishman.Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy,to mask her emotions and trust no one.Even those she loves most.
Since then Eva has carefully rebuilt her life - but once a spy, always a spy.And now she must complete one last assignment. This time,though, Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
'Restless' is a tour de force.Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal William Boyd's gripping novel captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy.
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