Sally, once a Russian émigré named Eva Declectorskaya, became involved in the world of espionage during the war. In 1976 Sally Gilmartin discloses secrets about her origins to her daughter Ruth. Restless is a thrilling espionage novel set during the Second World War and a haunting portrait of a female spy. This time though she can't do it alone, she needs Ruth's help. Before it is too late, she must confront the demons of her past. Sally has far too many secrets, and she has no one to trust. No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real identity. She is now Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque Cotswold village. Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment toward getting involved in WWII. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and work for his underground network. He also has a mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sundance Channel and the BBC starring Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation. A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter.

Restless by William Boyd