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Atomic Love
- Author
- Jennie Fields
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 17 September 2020
- Run Time
- 12 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
The stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, deepest desires and the power of forgiveness.
Chicago, 1950: Rosalind Porter is unfulfilled, heartbroken and angry.
Five years ago her career as a scientist was sabotaged by the man who also broke her heart: former Manhattan Project colleague Thomas Weaver.
Now, out of the blue, Thomas gets back in touch: he urgently needs to see her.
Rosalind is wary, can she let him back into her life and risk being hurt all over again?
But then someone changes her mind - FBI agent Charlie Szydlo.
He suspects Thomas of selling atomic secrets to Russia, and he needs her help to find out the truth.
But is it the truth about what Thomas might have done or the truth about his feelings for her that really matters? And at the back of her mind is Charlie - a good man whose pain she is drawn to healing.
Torn between two men, Rosalind faces a heartbreaking choice . . .
© Jennie Fields 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Science, love, espionage, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. There is nothing left to want
Ann Patchett
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A highly-charged love story
bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing
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Brimming with espionage and passion, Atomic Love shines a light on the private lives of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project and the growing threat of nuclear Russia. Taut, atmospheric, and wholly immersive, Atomic Love is a thrilling read for historical fiction lovers
New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana
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Atomic Love is so propulsive that 'page-turner' doesn't do it justice...At the heart of it all is a brilliant, damaged woman determined to save herself and the whole human race. The world could not be in better hands
author of Late Migrations
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Atomic Love had me in its thrall from page one. How rewarding to follow these sympathetic, brilliantly drawn characters through their affairs of state and heart. Thank you, Jennie Fields, for this terrific, atmospheric, suspenseful and wholly gratifying read
author of Then She Found Me and Good Riddance
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A page-turning thriller that's also an exploration of the competing pressures on women that still resonates today. This one goes to the top of your pile
author of The Art Forger
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Fields combines a paean to feminist empowerment with old-fashioned romance...atmospheric, historically interesting escapism
Kirkus Reviews
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Fields creates authentic female characters teetering on the verge of the women's movement, struggling to claim their place in the world. Inspired by history, Fields' fifth novel is a love story filled with passion, betrayal, mystery, and liberation
Booklist
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Full of intrigue and good old fashioned espionage, Fields has created a flawed and ferocious heroine in the intelligent Rosalind Porter. A captivating must-read with a cast of crafty characters so engaging I was sad to see it come to its glorious end
author of The Flight Girls
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The smart, warmhearted, and haunted heroine at the centre of Atomic Love is just one of the complex characters that enrich this imaginative page-turner. Field's sharp eye for detail never slows the action, but sensuously immerse the reader in time and place
author of The Chaperone
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Details
- Author
- Jennie Fields
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
- Duration
- 12 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781405945752
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Espionage and spy thriller, Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Chicago, 1950Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations - in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project to design the atomic bomb, and in her passionate love affair with coworker Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the results of her work and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She has almost succeeded in resigning herself to a more conventional life.Then Weaver gets back in touch - but so does the FBI. Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Rosalind to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of selling nuclear secrets to Russia. Rosalind final assignment launches her on a mission to find the truth . . . no matter where it leads.© Jennie Fields 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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