In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.
'Bernard Shaw couldn't do it, Henry James couldn't do it, but the ingenious English author Michael Frayn does do it: write novels and plays with equal success ... Frayn's novel excels.' John updike,
New Yorker
'A beautifully accomplished, richly nostalgic novel about supposed second-world-war espionage seen through the eyes of a young boy.'
Sunday Times
'Deeply satisfying . . . Frayn has written nothing better.'
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Publisher
Faber & FabereBook ISBN
9780571249206
Year
2009Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
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- 8
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- 10
- 11
- Author biography
- By the Same Author
- Copyright