Juliet is in her early twenties when World War II starts, and like so many girls and women her age she finds herself working for MI5. This sounds more exciting than it is; mostly, Juliet types things. One day she is ordered to join a mission in a small flat in London, where an agent named Godfrey Tobey ingratiates himself with Nazi sympathisers. I haven’t read the blurb at the back but I imagine it continues with something about Juliet not knowing what she’s getting […]
“If you are going to tell a lie, tell a good one”
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
