Restless

A Novel

De: William Boyd

Narrado por: Rosamund Pike

William Boyd's Restless is a brilliant espionage audiobook and a vivid portrait of the life of a female spy. Full of tension and drama, and based on a remarkable chapter of Anglo-American history, this is listening at its finest.

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive, and above all, to never trust anyone.

Three decades later the secrets of Sally's past still haunt her. Someone is trying to kill her and at last she has decided to trust Ruth with her story. Ruth, meanwhile, is struggling to make sense of her own life as a young single mother with an unfinished graduate degree and escalating dependence on alcohol. She is drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past—the mysterious death of Eva's beloved brother, her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward American involvement in the war, her dangerous romantic entanglement. Now Sally wants to find the man who recruited her for the secret service, and she needs Ruth's help.

©2006 William Boyd; (P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a divison of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Rosamund Pike gives a great performance!

She flawlessly speaks, French, American, German and gives each character unique voices and emotions to the characters.

The story of a spy in WW2 is fascinating. A glimpse into the life of.

Rosamund crushes it!!

This is a fantastic story, well paced, excellent layering. The vocal performance is outstanding, and I immediately went looking for anything else Rosamund has done in audio books.

Enthralling story

The story in this book is fascinating, believable, and shows tremendous insight into the emotions and behavior of several people. It is absolutely top rate.

Fantastic WWII Spy Mystery

Fantastic! Tightly written. Excellent reader. I could not stop listening.

amazing

rosamund pike was a wonderful narrator, obviously. William boyd was a wonderful writer, obviously. conclusion, listen to the book

What a Bore!!

The only thing I liked about this unbearably boring story was Rosamunde Pike’s narration. I had to stop,however, since it is such an aimless story