Daunt Books

A beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe and a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, from English fiction's master storyteller. In Vienna, 1913, a troubled English actor begins a passionate love affair with an intense, distressed woman he meets in a psychiatrist’s waiting room. But war is imminent, and events in Vienna have caught up with the couple in the most damaging way. Unable to live an ordinary life, Lysander Rief is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day.

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