Simon Mawer
Wednesday 30th May 2012
Venue
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
Start Time
8pm
8pm
With The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Simon Mawer has written a tense, gripping story of wartime intelligence and love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, naive yet too clever for her own good. Now recruited to go undercover in wartime France, her official mission demands that she must act as a Resistance courier.
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky is hugely evocative of the streets of wartime Paris, and the dangerous excitement of avoiding the Gestapo. It is not only a pacy and thrilling story of jeopardy and adventure, but a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. A worthy successor to the much-acclaimed The Glass Room.