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Oct 07, 2015EmilyEm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Takes place in Oxfordshire, England in 1976, when Sally Gilmartin suspects someone is trying to kill her and finally tells her twenty-something daughter that she had another life: She is Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. As the story unfolds we follow Eva's—now Eve Dalton’s, then Sally Gilmartin’s story—and her daughter’s back and forth from those spy years to the story’s 1970s setting. Interesting characters, there’s romance, intrigue, manipulation—all the ingredients of a wonderful story. One of his best. This book captured me from page one; even the passage from Proust’s 'The Guermantes Way' was incentive! It’s a great mother-daughter story, a wonderful spy story, and a story from the past but with themes we wrestle with every day. And, yes, 'Restless' is a good name for it. I, for one, could not put it down—'restless’ until finished!