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"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 emigree and one-time spy." "In 1939 Eva is a beautiful 28-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…
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13 editions · 2 languages- Ebook · English · 2009Bloomsbury Publishing · 9781408807125
- Paperback · English · 2007Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 336 pages · 9780747586203
- Paperback · English · 2007Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 336 pages · 9780747589372
- Paperback · English · 2007Bloomsbury USA · 336 pages · 9781596912373
- Hardcover · English · 2007Thorndike Press · 523 pages · 9780786293766
- Audiobook · English · 2006Audio Renaissance · 9781427200198
FictionSecret serviceWorld War, 1939-1945Women spiesMothers and daughtersFamily secretsErwachsene TochterMutter












