I struggled with the first half of this book which seemed almost Dickensian in its slow development.
2 kids are abandoned by their parents during the 2nd world war and appear to be cared for by some fairly unsavoury minor criminals, who take them down the Thames at night, buying smuggled in greyhounds from Europe.
In the 2nd half this all transmutes in a beautiful love story between the narrators’ mother, with wonderful romantic writing very similar to The English Patient. The mother was a spy of some sort, I am not entirely sure on which side of all the conflicts that spilled out of the war, and the minor criminals were I think MI5 operatives whose job was to look after her kids.
Beautifully written but a little obscure in intention!
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