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The Day of the Lie
By (Author) William Brodrick
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
12th February 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 260mm, Height 200mm, Spine 132mm
306g
'They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison.
Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her someone still unknown.As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, a Stasi officer makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made.Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that an entire generation was killed to keep hidden.In a career change that mirrors Father Anselm's, Bill Brodrick was Augustinian friar before leaving the order to become a practising barrister.