Silverview
-
-
3.6 • 61 Ratings
-
-
- £7.99
-
- £7.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .
Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.
© The Literary Estate of David 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Customer Reviews
Great Listen!
Excellent story week told, as you would expect from JLC. Toby Jones is a delight to listen to - wish he’d do more!
Disappointing
A confusing mixture of First, Second and Third person narration with sometimes no change in tone or speed from Toby Jones to indicate which one it is. The story is a bit dull without any characters I could warm to. Given that JLC had completed A Legacy Of Spies only a few years earlier this is a shadow of that book. Hugely disappointed.