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Red Joan

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Red Joan

De: Jennie Rooney
Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
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Joan’s voice is almost a whisper. ‘Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren’t allowed to.’

Joan Stanley has a secret.

She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world.

Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists, yet unworldly Joan feels better suited to a science lecture and a cup of cocoa. But a chance meeting with the glamorous Russian-born Sonya and her charismatic cousin Leo blurs the edges of the things Joan thought she knew about the world, and about herself.

In the post-War world of smoke and mirrors, allegiance is a slippery thing. Working in a government ministry with access to top-secret information, Joan is suddenly faced with the most difficult question of all: what price would you pay to remain true to what you believe? Would you betray your country, your family, even the man you love?

Espías y políticos Ficción contemporánea Literatura de género Misterio Negra y suspense Pueblos y campo
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A meditation on the secrets we keep... Red Joan's strength lies in the complex personal relationships that underpin the spying game... A powerfully-written exploration of the far-reaching consequences that even the smallest-seeming actions can have (Kaite Welsh)
A brilliant spy novel, with an unlikely culprit and a deft, involving plot...tense, beautifully pitched and very moving novel (Eithne Farry)
Sensitive spy thriller… Finely detailed and resolutely sensitive… This excellent period novel still carries some considerable resonance in the age of Bradley Manning (Andrzej Lukowski)
If you loved William Boyd’s Restless, you’ll enjoy this (Viv Groskop)
Compulsive reading... Rooney's approach it to make this a very personal story for Joan. There's love, loss, betrayal, friendship and secrets galore and it gives a believable insight on how one, normal person might be let to betray her country. The true mark of the story is that you find yourself thinking that you might have done exactly what Joan did in those circumstances
A gripping, emotional and expertly plotted spy novel of the Cold War, inspired by a real story. Beautifully written and clever (Kate Mosse)
One of Britain's brightest young writing talents (Nic Bottomley)
Gripping
A great thriller and a stirring love story
A gripping narrative and a compelling lead character... This is an absorbing and accomplished novel
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