by William Boyd · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747586227
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«Restless» is the spy novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (325 pages, in English).
Ruth Gilmartin discovers in the summer of 1958 that her mother is not who she seems: Sally is Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigrée recruited in Paris by the British secret service in 1939 to spy during the Second World War. Years later, the secrets of that life threaten her present and Ruth must help her face them.
Winner of the Costa Book Award in the novel category in 2006.
Recommended for readers of spy novels and historical thrillers set during the Second World War.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
