Spies

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 197, [1 (blank)]. Stiff pictorial wraps.

Winner of the 2002 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the 21st Century. A child's game turns deadly earnest when two boys in wartime London suspect that one of their mothers is a secret German agent. "Deeply satisfying... Frayn has written nothing better." –Paul Bailey, Independent