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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
- Author
- Simon Mawer
- Narrator
- Anna Bentinck
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 3 May 2012
- Run Time
- 11 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical fiction
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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France with an urgent mission…
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Details
- Author
- Simon Mawer
- Narrator
- Anna Bentinck
- Duration
- 11 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 May 2012
- ISBN
- 9781471201219
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction
Synopsis
The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love.Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France with an urgent mission…
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