5/21/2023 0 Comments Restless boyd review![]() ![]() Only Sally isn’t really the quiet Home Counties widow she seems. The story is told on a split screen – Ruth Gilmartin is a single mother in the restless 1970’s, struggling to finish a degree at Oxford and find out what’s troubling her mother, Sally. In William Boyd’s new novel, Restless, it’s sometimes difficult to tell the two apart. Whatever it is, we cannot get enough of espionage and its champions or its victims. Perhaps it’s the sense of quiet and prolonged deception – not grand gestures of the Bondian sort but a lifetime of secrets and superiority. What is it about spies? Perhaps it’s the guise of normalcy, that the man next to you on the subway is carrying the Financial Times as a signal, or that the overturned trash can is really a dead drop. ![]() The reading will take place at 7pm at 192 Books (192 10th Ave at 21st St). He will be making a rare New York appearance, to read from this new novel, tomorrow. The below review is of William Boyd's Restless. ![]()
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