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Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 14 February 2007.

Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2006. 

Judges' comment:
  "Beautifully crafted. Boyd gives us a page-turner, despite the story's complex wartime intrigue.  Restless is packed with riveting detail: it is a novel reeking of authenticity."

Sarah Broadhurst's view...
I am an enormous fan of William Boyd although some of his novels are a little disappointing.  Not this one.  I must admit I was surprised to discover that it is actually just a spy story … but what a story.  It begins in 1976 when Ruth discovers her mother is not the cantankerous English lady she was always known, but one Eve Delectorskaya, spy and wartime heroine.  Eveâs wartime story then unfolds alongside the present and more surprises.  This is terrific stuff, beautifully written, suspenseful, compulsive, emotional and historically fascinating.  Itâs one hell of a tale.  I loved it.

Comparison: John Le Carré, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris.

Sarah Broadhurst

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