MI5 and Me - 9781408888131

Name: MI5 and Me - 9781408888131
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

MI5 and Me'Imagine a Jilly Cooper heroine in an early John le Carr world'\nAuthor(s): Charlotte Bingham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nISBN-13: 9781408888131, 978-1408888131\nSynopsis\n'A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carrs George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5\n\nMuch to her surprise, eighteen-year-old Lottie has just found out that her aloof, rather unexciting father is a spy. And now hes decreed that she must make herself useful and get a Proper Job so shes packed off to MI5 herself, trussed up in a dreary suit. Luckily her delightful colleague Arabella is on hand to enliven the torments of typing and decode the enigmas of office life. But as Lotties home fills with actors doubling as spies, and Arabellas mother is besieged with mysteri.