{"product_id":"spy-game-book-georgina-harding-9780747597087","title":"The Spy Game","description":"'If you were a sleeper, how long do you think it would take  before you forgot who you really were? If you were living undercover  for years and years. Which person would be you?' On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother  disappears into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's cheek, a  rumble of exhaust and a blurred wave through an icy windscreen, and her  mother is gone. Looking back, Anna will wish that she could have paid  more attention to the facts of that day. The adult world shrouds the  loss in silence, tidies the issue of death away along with the things  that her mother left behind. And her memories will drift and settle  like the fog that covers the car. That same morning a spy case breaks in the news - the case of the  Krogers, apparently ordinary people who were not who they said they  were; people who had disappeared in one place and reappeared in another  with other identities, leading other lives. Obsessed by stories of the  Cold War, and of the Second World War which is still a fresh and  painful memory for the adults about them, Anna's brother Peter begins  to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern  Germany, was a spy working undercover and might even still be alive. As  life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort between fact and  fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? And how do you know who a  person was once she is dead? The Spy Game is a beautifully wrought novel about loss,  history, memory and imagination, and the way in which we shape these to  construct our own identities. It is a painful and tender reminder of  the importance of understanding the past and, in turn, the importance  of letting go.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569070842129,"sku":"GOR001339913","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52962046509329,"sku":"GOR001856253","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747597081.jpg?v=1750978132","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/spy-game-book-georgina-harding-9780747597087","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}