The Russians had been their enemies and then they were their allies, and then they were enemies again. The hall had been packed to the rafters and the atmosphere had been electrifying, magnificent-it had felt as though they were at one with the occupants of the siege. In June of 1942 she had been in the Royal Albert Hall for the concert premiere of the Seventh Symphony, the “Leningrad.” A man she knew had finessed a ticket for her. She supposed she would miss the rest of them now. It was Wednesday-the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth. The string quartets, all fifteen parsed out in servings of three a day at the Wigmore Hall. Someone official, someone who must have looked in her bag and found something with her name on it. Between the dark and the daylight.Ī policeman? Or a paramedic.
It might have been her own fault, she had been distracted-she had lived for so long abroad that she had probably looked the wrong way when she was crossing Wigmore Street in the midsummer twilight. She could, although she didn’t seem able to respond. “Miss Armstrong? Miss Armstrong, can you hear me?” It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit, and empathy. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past.
But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life
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