Over at gothamist, William Boyd’s Restless reviewed:

“But somehow, the urgency of the present – Sally’s paranoia that the mistakes and betrayals of the past have come to claim their victim – doesn’t hold a candle to the taut suspense of the past. Sally is afraid of flitting shadows, but Eva had real monsters around each dark corner, and the foggy uncertainty of sleepy Oxfordshire never quite rises to the knife-sharp drama of wartime.”

Pop over here for the rest – and this is the second spy novel reviewed in a row! People, I am on a roll. Except I’m not. I wasn’t here. You never saw me. Shhhh…
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Relatedly, I’ve updated the Books page for the first time in two months so it’s a bit spotty – I’d say that’s a fair 85% of what I’ve read this year but I know I’m missing some flotsam and jetsam.
Just in time to acquire more flotsam/jetsam, too. Pocketed at the Rochambeau Book Sale this weekend by Mr. Bridgett and myself:
Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites and Mort
Len Deighton’s Mexico Set and London Match
Dorothy L. Sayers’ Clouds of Witness and Gaudy Night
Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed
W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day
Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra
Connie Willis’ Lincoln’s Dreams
Let the building of the new bookshelf BEGIN.