It might have been her own fault, she had been distracted-she had lived for so long abroad that she had probably looked the wrong way when she was crossing Wigmore Street in the midsummer twilight. She could, although she didn’t seem able to respond. “Miss Armstrong? Miss Armstrong, can you hear me?” It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit, and empathy. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life
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