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Sto caricando le informazioni... An Unlikely Agentdi Jane Menczer
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London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as The Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Written in the first person after the conclusion of the events detailed in the book, and therefore with a certain amount of foreshadowing, I enjoyed reading about Margaret becoming an *unlikely agent*. The feeling of time and place is acute – the author has clearly done her research, especially concerning the small everyday details a woman of that time would notice. Margaret is a strong, likeable and intelligent main character, and her narrative voice is well written, though much too detailed in places, slowing down the pace noticeably as a result. I can reconcile the pace with her being a careful and meticulous person, but there's no getting away from the fact that for me it really dragged in places. While the ending leaves open the prospect of a sequel, it also doesn't quite hang together for me, and there were several questions that remained unanswered; of course, this could be a ploy by the author to whet the appetite for the next book (if there is one), but to me it leaves an unsatisfactory feeling as I write this review. However, I would definitely read any sequel(s) if the author decided to continue Margaret's story and that of the other employees at Bureau 8. ( )