PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781408830390
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, F GEN, Fiction, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) William Boyd (Author and playwright, UK)
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Pages 429
- Format PAPERBACK
- Dimensions 19.6cm x 2.7cm x 12.8cm
- Weight 0.448 kg
product description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of his life...