Transcription
Atkinson, Kate
Genre:
In 1940
eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers
she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended
she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later
now a radio producer at the BBC
Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now
on a different battleground
but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due
and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
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