'Spies' is the retrospective view of a Second World War childhood. Whilst creating a very real atmosphere of the 1940s it explores many apparently unsolvable dilemmas of the young in the same way as L.P. Hartley does in 'The Go-Between'. We begin to see through some of the mysteries early in the book but Frayn's novel is compulsive reading and it is not until the end that our suspicions are finally confirmed.
(Judith Peppitt - bwl 13 April 2002 ) |
