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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting
room of the city s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the
particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic,
intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn
to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent
affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself
entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex,
scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of
his life...I> BESTSELLERSUNDAY TIMES< 'Boyd is English fiction's
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by William Boyd carries its own recommendation. To read one of his
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novelists' The Times >
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting
room of the city s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the
particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic,
intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn
to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent
affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself
entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex,
scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily, permeating every corner of
his life...I> BESTSELLERSUNDAY TIMES<
