by William Boyd · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa dura · ISBN 9780747585718
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«Restless» is the spy novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in hardcover (336 pages, in English).
In 1939, Eva Delectorskaya, a young Russian émigrée in Paris, is recruited by the British secret service during World War II. Three decades later, her daughter Ruth discovers that her mother was a spy and that she must complete a final mission, in which she needs her help. The novel explores the cost of deceit and betrayal.
Winner of the Costa Book Award 2006 in the novel category. First edition published in September 2006.
For readers of spy novels and historical suspense, with a plot divided between 1976 and World War II.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
