![]() ![]() His best friend at the time was Keith Hayward, the bright son of rather standoffish parents Keith and Stephen embark on a childish adventure after Keith announces that his British mother is a German spy. Stephen Wheatley, now a grandfather living abroad, is drawn back to London to revisit his boyhood home, to deal with the complexities and eventual tragedy engendered by what seemed a harmless game of spy when he was just a schoolboy during WWII. Metropolitan, $23 (261p) ISBN 0-8050-7058-3īy the author of the bestselling Booker Prize finalist Headlong, this dark, nostalgic and bittersweet parable evokes the childhood escapades of an isolated and hapless young boy caught up in the uncertainties of wartime London in the early 1940s, just after the horrors of the Luftwaffe blitz. ![]() ![]() A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers but hasn't received a starred or boxed review. ![]()
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