Red Joan
by:
Jennie Rooney (author)
Joan’s voice is almost a whisper. ‘Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren’t allowed to.’Joan Stanley has a secret. For fifty years she has been a loving mother, a doting grandmother and an occasional visitor to ballroom dancing and watercolour classes. Then one...
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Joan’s voice is almost a whisper. ‘Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren’t allowed to.’Joan Stanley has a secret. For fifty years she has been a loving mother, a doting grandmother and an occasional visitor to ballroom dancing and watercolour classes. Then one sunlit spring morning there is a knock on the door.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385680042 (038568004X)
Publish date: May 21st 2013
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
At the age of eighty-five Joan Stanley is unmasked as a Cold War spy who passed secrets about the production of the atomic bomb to the Russians. During five days of interrogation by MI5 we share her memories of student life in Cambridge and learn how the intense relationships she formed during that ...
Book at Beachtime Eleanor Bron and Olivia Hallinan read Jennie Rooney's thriller.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036wblb/Book_at_Beachtime_Jennie_Rooney_Red_Joan_Episode_1/A novel loosely based on this woman's exploits:British spy Melita Norwood helped speed up USSR's atomic bomb programme. Me...
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