The Spy Game

For fans of Restless by William Boyd, Atonement and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan and Spies by Michael Frayn The Solitude of Thomas Cave received stunning review coverage and was shortlisted for the Jelf Group First Novel Award 2007 as well as the Waverton Good Read Award 2008

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.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. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a person was once she is dead?