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Mrs Spy
Mrs Spy (Related to this series)
- Author
- M J Robotham
- Narrator
- Clare Corbett
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 May 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down' - Ava Glass
Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.
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Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.
She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises.
Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.
But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him.
As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?
'A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer' – Ian Moore
'Mrs Spy is a delicious recreation of 1960s London... rich and well-constructed' - Emma Flint
Critics Review
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Mrs Spy has invented a new genre - the domestic spy story in where the redoubtable heroine can knock up a shepherd’s pie as efficiently as knocking off an enemy agent. Smart, funny and tense - Mrs Spy has a license to entertain.
Daisy Goodwin
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Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down
Ava Glass
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If you liked Netflix’s Black Doves, you might enjoy this. Good fun
The Gloss Magazine
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A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer. Loved it
Ian Moore
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A hilarious and gripping page-turner
Woman's Own Magazine
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With a well-drawn, witty protagonist and a twisty, intelligent plot, this book will appeal to fans of spy novels and 1960s nostalgia
Candis Magazine
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Maggie Flynn is a true original: a smart, intrepid, middle-aged spy with acute instincts and aching bunions. Her investigation into her husband's death takes her on a fast-paced and perilous whirlwind through Sixties London, in a story that's full of period atmosphere as well as insights into the world of espionage
Gill Paul
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I loved this book: an absolutely gripping and heartwarming story... Down-to-earth, funny, tenacious and brave, we need more heroes like Mrs Spy!
Jane Bailey
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Mrs Spy is a wonderful, twisty, funny, fast-paced novel about the spy we would all like to meet. I read it from cover-to-cover in just a few days, and recommend it highly to anyone who is looking for a brilliant spy thriller with a twist. Loved it.
Hannah Dolby
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An exhilarating ride through the 60s
Woman's Weekly Magazine
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Nukes, traitors, misogynists and the Beatles – a romp but an intelligent one
Crime Time (Spy & Political Fiction Roundup)
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A cracking read
The Sunday Post, The Press & Journal, The Courier
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Palpably exudes 1960s London, combining cultural and political elements unique to the time
Gazette & Herald, York Press, Darlington and Stockton Times, The Northern Echo
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A compelling and sometimes very funny spy entertainment – reminiscent at times of the late Graham Greene
Historical Novel Review
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Recommended May reads
Take a Break Magazine
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Recommended May reads
Townswoman Magazine
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A most enjoyable caper, with just the right touches of realism and entertainment
Crime Time (Crime Roundup)
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The period detail of Sixties London is a joy and Maggie is the kind of heroine we can all root for
Yours magazine
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Addictive and amusing
The Westmeath Independent, Westmeath Examiner, Connaught Telegraph
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Written with style and flair. It is funny, thrilling, and at times unexpectedly moving. I loved it. Highly recommended
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Details
- Author
- M J Robotham
- Narrator
- Clare Corbett
- Duration
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035901159
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Historical fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Mrs Spy by M J Robotham, read by Clare Corbett.'Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down' - Ava GlassGet ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.***Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him. As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?'A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer' – Ian Moore'Mrs Spy is a delicious recreation of 1960s London... rich and well-constructed' - Emma Flint
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