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by William Boyd | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780747586203 Global Overview for this book
Registered by braemar of Braemar, Scotland United Kingdom on 8/16/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by braemar from Braemar, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, August 16, 2007
Eva is a Russian refugee living in Paris in 1939, where she is recruited into the British Secret Service. The book flits between the shadowy world of British spies in the USA prior to Pearl Harbour, and the 1970's when Eva needs her daughter's help to complete a final assignment.
Well crafted book, and the feel of America in the early forties is handled well. Well worth a read.
Left at Aberdeen meetup at the belmont 20.09.07

Journal Entry 2 by wingbelmontcafewing from Aberdeen, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, September 20, 2007
20.9.07 obcz

Journal Entry 3 by braemar at Belmont Cinema Cafe in Aberdeen, Scotland United Kingdom on Friday, September 21, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (9/20/2007 UTC) at Belmont Cinema Cafe in Aberdeen, Scotland United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 4 by wingrainbow3wing from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, October 15, 2007
Oh this sounds interesting and I am sure there will be a taker for it at the Edinburgh Bookcrossing MeetUp after I have read this... thanks for this braemar.

Edited to add: picked up Sat 13th Oct 07 at a micro-mini-meetup at the Belmont Cimema Cafe!

Journal Entry 5 by wingrainbow3wing from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Book cover text: It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigré living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust on one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva had carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once as spy always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can’t do it alone: she needs for daughter’s help.

This has a vast portentous feel like the sea, dark in twilight, before a storm. It’s a great heavy body of ideas, lies, manipulations, facts suppositions, witnessings, and extrapolations upon which lives are gambled. Dark deeds prompted by darker thoughts. Unfolding before us is the dreadful dislocation, distortion, and destruction of peoples lives all for a dedicated cause for which the machinations remain mysterious at best and ultimately deliberately unacknowledged by their very desperate nature. These tales of the past resound with a ghastly clang in another time where there are menacing echoes being played out in the background. What a tour de force this is! How breathtaking, and faultlessly written with no jarring notes. I’ll admit I was slow to warm to the story with its the chilly characters but once it had crept up on me and hi-jacked my attention, I was frankly gripped and unable to put it down. Oh, yes and a tiny mention of Scotland and Edinburgh my home, and as always I take note with delight.

Journal Entry 6 by serialdeviant from Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 17, 2008
Picked up at the Canongate Books OBCZ. I've heard a lot of good things about it, so it's now on my to be read pile!

Journal Entry 7 by serialdeviant from Swindon, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Monday, July 20, 2009
Ooh, I'd forgotten the copy on my shelves was a BC copy. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped, maybe my expectations were set too high. But it was still an easy read.

I'll release this when I remember to take it out with me!

Journal Entry 8 by serialdeviant at Canongate Books OBCZ in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Sunday, July 26, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (7/27/2009 UTC) at Canongate Books OBCZ in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom

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It's located in the ground floor lobby of the Oliver & Boyd building, which is in Tweeddale Court. You can find it across the road from the Scottish Storytelling Centre on High Street/Royal Mile.

Journal Entry 9 by GarryDH from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Caught at the Canongate Books OBCZ.

Journal Entry 10 by GarryDH from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, October 31, 2009
Very enjoyable and easy read. The story is really interesting and feels like an authentic slice of wartime espionage. I thought the modern day element wasn't always as interesting as the wartime flashbacks and it ran out of steam a bit towards the end but with the rest of the book so enjoyable, it's a minor complaint.

Journal Entry 11 by GarryDH at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (11/4/2009 UTC) at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh, Scotland United Kingdom

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Released at Queen Margaret University's Learning Resource Centre book swap.

Journal Entry 12 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Monday, November 9, 2009
My first William Boyd but not my last...

CAUGHT IN EDINBURGH MIDLOTHIAN SCOTLAND

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