false<![CDATA[Restless]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170800234m/72148.jpg7214823Sally Gilmartin can’t escape her past.
Living in the idyllic English countryside in 1976, Sally is haunted by her experiences during the Second World War. She also suspects someone is trying to kill her. With mounting fear, Sally confides with her daughter Ruth; a woman struggling with her own past. Sally drops a bombshell. She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited as a spy by the British prior to the Second World War. For the past thirty years, Eva has led a second life hiding from the ghosts of her past.
Eva reveals her secret to her daughter through a series of written chapters for a planned book. As Ruth delves into her mother’s writing, she learns the shocking truth. Eva was recruited in Paris prior to the Second World War, following the death of her brother Kolia; also a British spy. Taught by an enigmatic spymaster named Lucas Romer, Eva learned the art of espionage and was made part of a unit specializing in media manipulation. Above all, she was taught ‘Rule Number One’ of spying: trust no one — a rule broken when she and Romer began a dangerous love affair. The affair had tragic consequences.
In 1941, Eva and Romer were assigned to the United States. They were given the task of manipulating the American media into motivating the public to support entry into the war on the Allied side. While in New York, Eva’s affair with Romer set in motion events that culminated in her betrayal and her flight from the British Secret Services. She found eventual refuge in a new life as Sally Gilmartin.
Thirty years later, Eva’s identity unravels with her confession to her daughter. Ruth struggles with the truth, and her own recent past fills her with self-doubt and insecurity. A failed relationship in Germany resulted in a son and an eventual return to England. Her mother’s confession leads Ruth to the realization that her mother is entangling her in one final mission — a showdown with Eva’s past betrayer.
Restless twists and turns through the double life of one remarkable woman. Through Eva’s life, William Boyd asks the intriguing question — How well do we truly know someone?865487532007Restlesstotal:940|5:155|4:430|3:292|2:55|1:8|9403489124419642falsefalseSun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006Wed Sep 19 10:52:59 -0700 2007Wed Sep 19 11:26:55 -0700 2007
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Every critic agrees that William Boyd is a shamefully overlooked author on this side of the Atlantic. A powerful storyteller whose novels span genres and continents, Boyd often subtly ruminates on the thin line between private and public life. In Restless he fictionalizes a little-known moment of in...more...]]>
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the characters are very thin and a lot of them pointless , the plot creaks like a House of Horror film door , and most of the writing is cliched . most of what Boyd seems to know about ...more...]]>
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Ruth is a single mother in the 1970 and her mother Eva was a spy during world war 11. The book flows back and forth between the two and we learn of Eva's colourful past as a spy.
I hated all the 1970's stuff that involved Ruth, it all seemed pointless and didnt go ...more...]]>
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30falsefalseMon Apr 20 11:44:36 -0700 2009Sat Apr 04 06:15:09 -0700 2009Mon Apr 20 11:44:36 -0700 20091 I gave this 3 stars b/c I did enjoy the book and I didn't "get the ending" until the end. I learned a great deal about espionage by the ...more...]]>
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‘Restless’ was my introduction to the work of William Boyd, drawn to my attention by having been a recommendation of Richard and Judy’s Bookclub last year. An intriguing and exciting story that I became engrossed in from the very first page...more...]]>
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Sally Gilmartin can’t escape her past.
Living in the idyllic English countryside in 1976, Sally is haunted by her experiences during the Second World War. She also suspects someo...more...]]>
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