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The mother in Jacqueline Sutherland’s second novel has no parole officer to contend with, but she does have a guilty secret. I haven’t read anything else by Harriet Crawley, but based on this I would read more of her novels, and if you enjoy a good spy thriller I can definitely recommend this one! Set in 2017, the story centres on Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, who is summoned unexpectedly to act as translator for the British Prime Minister on a visit to Moscow.
These are clues to far more than fictional crimes, covering changing attitudes to masculinity, women, foreigners, empire and, above all, class.Crawley deftly plays off the influences of the old world and the modern age against each other in this story. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.
Moscow, centre of Russian power and a city I knew better than London, would be at the epicentre of my story. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly in 2017 to Moscow, to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. Clive Franklin is a Foreign Office translator, summoned at the last minute to accompany the British prime minister to a meeting with the Russian president. Crawley was well known on the television screen and had been a much-favoured young minister in the Attlee government when he was a Labour MP for Buckingham, 1945-51, as Under-Secretary for Air.This book has everything I want in a political thriller, with a twist that comes from looking at this through the eyes of two translators. Clive Franklin is a Russian language expert for the Foreign Office (UK) and he is on a sabbatical in the Highlands. Marina wants out but she has to have something to offer the British government and they want intelligence on something specific - the cutting of the Atlantic data cables. There are delicious characters on all sides, and the threads of their individual stories weave beautifully throughout to make an authentic spy thriller with lashings of emotional depth.
An ancestress Matilda Crawley-Boevey (1817–1877), of the Crawley-Boevey baronets married William Gibbs of Tyntesfield and Clyst St. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to AnnaBookBel with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Having just googled a map of the cables, I can see why - there are quite a few, coming ashore in several locations.
Unbeknown to President Serov (you-know-who), his favourite interpreter, Marina Volina, has had enough.
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