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Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley befriends the worldly Sonya, whose daring history is at odds with Joan's provincial upbringing. Joan also feels a growing attraction toward Leo, Sonya's mysterious and charismatic cousin. Sonya and Leo, known communist sympathizers with ties to Russia and Germany, interpret wartime loyalty in ways Joan can only begin to fathom. As nations throughout the continent fall to fascism, Joan is enlisted into an urgent project that will change the course of the war - and the world - forever. Decades later, MI5 agents appear at her doorstep....

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. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists

Stephanie Sandford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is indistinct and it’s complicated. First, there was her mum, who developed an anxious streak after marrying the wrong Reg. And then there was the young man from the dairy who gave Stevie swimming lessons before he broke her heart. War came, and four years chopping root vegetables in the canteen of the Sun Pat peanut factory on the Old Kent Road.

Als eines Morgens zwei Agenten des MI5 vor der Tür der 85-jährigen Joan Stanley stehen, weiß sie, dass der Tag der Abrechnung gekommen ist. Vor über sechzig Jahren studierte sie Physik an der renommierten Universität Cambridge. Für die aus traditionellem Elternhaus stammende Joan ein beeindruckender Ort mit seinen Freigeistern und Idealisten. Bald verband sie eine tiefe Freundschaft mit ihren russischen Kommilitonen Sonya und Leo. Eine Freundschaft, die Joan später, als sie in einer streng geheimen Einrichtung der britischen Regierung arbeitete, vor eine schicksalhafte Entscheidung stellte.