by María Dueñas · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221116296
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«L'espionne de Tanger» is the spy novel by María Dueñas, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (598 pages, in French).
Sira, a young Spanish seamstress, is left abandoned and penniless in Tétouan during the Civil War. She survives thanks to her sewing and ends up opening a workshop frequented by the wives of Europeans held in Morocco. When the Second World War breaks out, the British secret service recruits her; she hides coded messages in her sewing patterns and travels through Tangier, Madrid and Lisbon.
The French edition belongs to Robert Laffont's Best-Sellers collection and includes on its cover the mention of more than a million copies sold in Spain.
For readers of historical and spy fiction, and for those seeking female protagonists in plots of wartime intrigue.
Spanish philologist and novelist, author of The Time in Between, one of the best-selling Spanish-language novels of the 21st century.
