First edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 213, [7 (blank)]. Dark green paper boards, lettered in buttercup yellow to spine; beige endpapers.
Signed by Author to title-page.
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