by Elisabeth Rodgers, Rosalie Knecht
Who is Vera Kelly? was one of the Summer of Spies books that I have been most anticipating. It's the story of Vera Kelly (yes, really....) told from two different points of view: In one we have Vera posing as a student of Spanish in Argentina in the mid-60s but secretly spying on the political sit...
I slid straight into "Who Is Vera Kelly?", carried along not by the pace of the plot, which is not the usual you-have-twenty-four-hours- to-save-the-world spy thriller pace but by the nuanced but unpretentious prose and by the clear, calm way in which Vera describes herself and her situation. We m...