ABOUT
THE BOOK

Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976.
For Sally Gilmartin is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré. In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious, patrician Englishman. Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy: to be keen, quick, alert, and most importantly to trust no one, not even the people she most loves. Danger is everywhere.
Since then Eva has carefully rebuilt her life and turned herself into Sally Gilmartin. But once a spy, always a spy. Ruth discovers her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can’t do it alone: she needs Ruth’s help.
Restless is yet another tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal it is a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest.