Sabrina Stone looks like a society wife, except for the handicapped child in her arms. She speaks with investigative reporter Derrick McGill only for a few minutes. The next time she sees Derrick, it's in a maximum security prison--after he's convicted of murder. Sabrina believes in his innocence, a
The Imitator
✍ Scribed by Rebecca Starford
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2021;2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1761061097
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✦ Synopsis
The Imitator gripped me to the end: I devoured it ... What a rare treat to find a novel that offers both white-knuckled suspense and evocative, beautiful prose. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People
'We trade in secrets here, Evelyn. There's no shame in having a few of your own. Our only concern is for who might discover them.'
Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises that the only way for her to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her true self and what she really thinks behind the manners and attitudes of those around her. By the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, ambitious and brilliant Evelyn has perfected her performance.
War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White schools her in observation...
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