Mi5 and me: A Coronet Among the Spooks [Audiobook] download free by Charlotte Bingham
- Listen audiobook: Mi5 and me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- Author: Charlotte Bingham
- Release date: 2018/8/25
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781408888155
- Rating: 9.12 of 10
- Votes: 60
- Review by: Dimitri Whitehead
- Review rating: 8.9 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/5
- Duration: 3H10M51S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-02
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, MP3, MPEG-4 SLS, AIFF, WAV (compression TAR.XZ, RAR, RPM, ZIP, CHM, CBR, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M2S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the bestselling author comes a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carre's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5It seems to me now that everyone who came to our house in those days was a spy...When Lottie is summoned to her father's office at the age of eighteen, she is astonished to learn that this aloof, unexciting parent is a spy. Even more perturbing is his view that she should stop drifting around and get a proper job, something patriotic and worthwhile. So Lottie finds herself outside MI5's Mayfair headquarters in a dreary suit, feeling naked without her false eyelashes. Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, Lottie longs to escape, or for anything to release her from the torment of typing. Thankfully the serene Arabella is on hand to decode the enigmas of office life - from the strange disappearance of some security films to the career-transforming properties of garlic. But as Lottie's home fills with actors doubling as spies, and Arabella's mother is besieged by fishy telephone calls, Lottie begins to feel well and truly spooked.This unique memoir is a window into 1950s Britain: a country where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and where Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour. Discretion and honour meet secrecy and suspicion in this enchanting, extraordinary and hilarious true story.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Espionage & Secret Services, Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000, Memoirs, British & Irish History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.81 USD
- Dimensions: 135x216x25mm
- Weight: 280g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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