Kate Reading
1) Trapeze
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
If not for the war, Marian Sutro would be just another young English woman wondering whom she'll marry and how she'll find a way to be useful. But World War II has turned everyone's life inside out. Marian happens to be bilingual (her father is English, her mother French) and is recruited by the 'Inter-Services Research Bureau' and enrolled in a rigorous, take-no-prisoners espionage training course to aid the French resistance. Or at least that's...
2) Tightrope
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely...