Spy Game

An unforgettable, suspenseful novel about childhood, grief and Cold War paranoia

''Harding skilfully weaves together history, memory and imagination in this haunting and beautifully written novel about how, chameleon-like, we construct our own identities'' Daily Mail

On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna''s mother disappears into the fog.

That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna''s brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life?

And how do you know who a person was when she''s already dead?