MI5 and Me

✍ Scribed by Bingham, Charlotte

• Book ID: 109792807
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 115 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781408888155

✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling author comes a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carré's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5.
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It seems to me now that everyone who came to our house in those days was a spy. . .
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_When Charlotte Bingham, daughter of an obscure aristocrat, was summoned to her father's office aged eighteen, she never expected to discover that this aloof, soberly-dressed parent was a spy. Even more ominous than The Facts was his suggestion that she should stop drifting around working for the sort of people her mother could never ask to dinner and get a proper job, something patriotic and worthwhile.

So Lottie finds herself outside MI5's Mayfair offices in a dreary suit, feeling naked without her false eyelashes. Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, Lottie wishes for pneumonia, or anything to release her from the torment...