The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Simon Mawer

I’ve had Simon Mawer’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky on my ever-groaning TBR since mid 2013, purchased as soon as I saw it because I really liked The Glass Room which was nominated for the Booker.  (See my review).  What prompted me to read it now was that the sequel Tightropehas just been released and I wanted to start with the war time exploits of Marion Sutro before reading about her Cold War career…

My father is going to love this book.  Published for some reason also under the title Trapeze in some editions, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is unputdownable.  I mean that: I started reading it at bedtime and didn’t turn out the light until I’d finished the book some six hours later.  And my heart was still thudding from the tension of the last few pages…

Marion Sutro is the bilingual…