![]() ![]() Beautiful Eva soon turns out to be a dab hand at disseminating disinformation through the press. He tells her that if she works for him, he will get her an English passport. Sally is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian recruited as a spy just before the Second World War by the suave and rather sinister Lucas Romer. Ruth, an irritable single mother and Oxford graduate who is wasting her life teaching English as a second language, has always been told by her own mother, Sally, that ‘One day someone will come and kill me and then you’ll be sorry.’ This threat turns out to be true. ![]() Restless is that rare pleasure, a story that grips you from the first page and doesn’t let go until the last. Was it the unappealing Armadillo, or the tedious Nat Tate, or the self-indulgent essays in Bamboo? At any rate, Boyd is back with a new publisher, a new novel and his old form. Somehow, I don’t know how, I stopped reading William Boyd over the past decade. ![]()
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