Silverview / John Le Carre.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 252 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593554739Subject(s): Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction | Leaks (Disclosure of information) -- Fiction | Letters -- Fiction | Polish people -- England -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Spy fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) Summary: Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea. This story is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. It seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea. This story is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. It seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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