Spies lie. Spies betray. It’s what they do. Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work.…
Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald’s husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant…
Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the…








