Spies
Author(s): Michael Frayn
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories. Then one day Keith announces an even more disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family, and the children find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.
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Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2002 and Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Eurasia 2003 and Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2002. Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003.
'Deeply Satisfying... Frayn has written nothing better.' Independent; 'Spies improves upon rereading, which is the true test of depth. It is cerebral and sensuous; extremely funny and yet deeply serious.' Sunday Telegraph
Michael Frayn's most recent novel, Headlong, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen. His nine previous novels include Towards the End of the Morning and The Trick of It.
General Fields
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- : Faber Faber
- : Faber Faber
- : 0.17
- : 01 January 2003
- : 198mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Michael Frayn
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 823.914
- : 272
- : Modern fiction