Deze serie volgt de reis van een dappere jonge vrouw die zich een weg baant door het turbulente tijdperk van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Lezers worden meegezogen in een wereld vol ongelooflijke avonturen, waar romantiek verweven is met de dreiging van verraad. De verhalen verkennen de zoektocht naar iemands plaats in een wereld die getekend is door een mondiaal conflict. Het biedt een diepgaand inzicht in menselijk veerkracht en het verlangen naar liefde te midden van tegenspoed.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.