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    Tightrope

    Simon Mawer

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    Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life.

    Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life.

    Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

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    Praise for Tightrope

    • Praise for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

    • Streamlined and tautly paced...Mawer...always keep[s] the pace brisk, the underlying tension high - Guardian

    • As good as Le Carre...I have rarely read a novel that made fear so acute, so tangible...A novel of high intelligence and creative imagination, strong in plot and wonderfully atmospheric - Allan Massie, The Scotsman

    • An absorbing novel full of treachery, twilight and terror - Telegraph

    • A stark, focused adventure...[A] skillfully and intelligently executed thriller - Washington Post

    • Praise for The Glass Room

    • The Glass Room is a superlative work of art: a novel replete with ideas that is also, thanks to a throbbing great engine of a plot, incredibly exciting and moving. - Observer

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    Simon Mawer

    Simon Mawer

    Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England, and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He then moved to Italy, where he and his family lived for more than thirty years while he taught at the British International School in Rome. He and his wife currently divide their time between Italy and Hastings. Simon Mawer is the author of several novels including the Man Booker shortlisted The Glass Room, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Tightrope and Prague Spring.

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