Restless by William Boyd


finished 9/22 ........ contemp spy/detective ....... rating 9

I just finished "Restless" by William Boyd and incomparably read by Rosamund Pike. Great stuff. I see Pike has not narrated anything else available at Audible - anywhere else? And this is Boyd's only work there. too.

About Pike, I was a bit reminded of Barbara Rosenblatt's reading of Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Pike is an actress but still, she did a fine job - Also, I believe Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Will Patton, George Guidell, Frank Muller and Barbara Rosenblatt are also actors. Yes, I think they really enjoy making audio books because it shows and I think they all do an absolutely marvelous job of reading. (btw, I don't care for slightly over drama-tizations, either; I like a good story well read. :-)

Anyway, I've digressed, Restless is a very suspense-filled historical novel of British WWII espionage. The protagonist, Ruth Gilmartin, finds out in the 1970s that her mother, known to her as Sally Gilmartin, was/is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigré and a fairly high-level British spy during the war. Sally/Eva is older now, and suspicious about things. She gives Ruth, the daughter who is telling the story, her "memoirs." Ruth is the single mother of charming young boy and an interesting international life of her own.

Posted: Sat - September 27, 2008 at 07:17 AM        

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