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The 2008 Award

 

The Lieutenant's Lover

The Lieutenant's Lover

by Harry Bingham

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • The Gambia National Library, Banjul, The Gambia .

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:


HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN: 9780007205516

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been bitter enemies; and yet they fall passionately in love. It cannot last, and Misha must flee the country as Tonya faces arrest and possibly death.

Thirty years later, Misha has survived the War and seeks to rebuild his life in the destroyed city of Berlin. Drawn into spying for the British, he learns of a talented female agent from the Soviet quarter. Can it be his lost love? And how will they find each other, as the divide deepens between East and West?

Intensely dramatic, epic in scope, this is a glorious novel of courage, action
and ultimately undying hope.

(From Publisher)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harry Bingham is an ex-City trader who has worked for major British, American and Japanese firms but who now writes full-time. He lives near Oxford with his wife and their three dogs.

LIBRARIAN'S COMMENTS

Interesting and highly entertaining story of, love in the midst of The Cold War, espionage and East/West conflicts.

 

 

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