A review by newishpuritan
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
4.0
Fantastic first-person narration, very engaging and funny. The historical milieu is fascinating. A third-act twist feels very unmotivated, and rather spoils things.
The MI5 operation against Nazi sympathisers is given a comic treatment here--they're all rather pathetic and trivial, and the transcripts of their conversations are all deliberately bathetic. This contrasts with Anthony Quinn's Our Friends in Berlin. But this book is much livelier than his.
The MI5 operation against Nazi sympathisers is given a comic treatment here--they're all rather pathetic and trivial, and the transcripts of their conversations are all deliberately bathetic. This contrasts with Anthony Quinn's Our Friends in Berlin. But this book is much livelier than his.