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Spies
By (Author) Michael Frayn
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
9th June 2011
5th May 2011
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
240
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
197g
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackouts at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife. He is married to the biographer and critic, Claire Tomalin.