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‘I absolutely galloped through The Spymaster’s Wife; I tried to go slowly to save it, and failed utterly. Wonderfully gripping and entertaining’ Joanna Lumley
‘This well-written insider’s account, shaped into fiction, conveys the truth of experience more fully than a dozen conventional thriller’ Alan Judd, author of No.2 Whitehall Court
It’s 1968 and nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has had the perfect day: in love for the first time, a picnic in an orchard welcomed by Alec’s beloved aunt in her cottage on the South Downs, hearing about how well her fiancé is doing in the Foreign Office. But as they speed back to Chelsea through the darkening countryside in his open top Jaguar, she knows something is wrong. He pulls over, and she feels her heart sink.
‘You are never going to be an ambassador’s wife,’ he tells her.
But Alec isn’t breaking off their engagement. He’s telling her that he’s not a diplomat. He’s in the S.I.S – the Secret Intelligence Service. MI6. And if she marries him, so is she.
Elizabeth doesn’t care who he works for: she loves him. Alec is posted to Cyprus and they start their married life together.But the danger and duplicity to come is far from anything Elizabeth could have imagined…
• THE HOOK: 1968. On the drive home after a perfect day, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth’s fiancé tells her he isn’t a diplomat. He’s MI6. And if she marries him, so is she.
• BASED ON A TRUE STORY: Written by first cousins Juliet Clibborn, on whose life the novel is based, and Angie Sage. Juliet traveled the world with her ‘diplomat’ husband until his death in 2017.
• BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR: Angie Sage is the author of the New York Times bestselling Septimus Heap series, a name millions of US readers grew up with.
•PRAISE: ‘…conveys the truth of experience more fully than a dozen conventional thrillers’ Alan Judd.
• FOR FANS OF: Kate Quinn, Ava Glass and Slow Horses. Cold War Cyprus, a marriage built on secrets and a rare look at the spy’s wife.
RRP: £9.99
ISBN: 9781835016015
Published: March 11, 2027
Extent: 352 pages
RRP: £6.99
ISBN: 9781835016022
Published: March 11, 2027
‘I absolutely galloped through The Spymasters Wife; I tried to go slowly to save it, and failed utterly. Wonderfully gripping and entertaining: much of it is familiar to me, not as a spy, but as someone who learned to get out of a car without showng my knickers at Lucie Clayton’ Joanna Lumley
'I absolutely galloped through The Spymaster's Wife; I tried to go slowly to save it, and failed utterly. Wonderfully gripping and entertaining' Joanna Lumley
'This well-written insider's account, shaped into fiction, conveys the truth of experience more fully than a dozen conventional thriller' Alan Judd, author of No.2 Whitehall Court
It’s 1968 and nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has had the perfect day: in love for the first time, a picnic in an orchard welcomed by Alec’s beloved aunt in her cottage on the South Downs, hearing about how well her fiancé is doing in the Foreign Office. But as they speed back to Chelsea through the darkening countryside in his open top Jaguar, she knows something is wrong. He pulls over, and she feels her heart sink.
‘You are never going to be an ambassador’s wife,’ he tells her.
But Alec isn’t breaking off their engagement. He’s telling her that he’s not a diplomat. He’s in the S.I.S – the Secret Intelligence Service. MI6. And if she marries him, so is she.
Elizabeth doesn’t care who he works for: she loves him. Alec is posted to Cyprus and they start their married life together.But the danger and duplicity to come is far from anything Elizabeth could have imagined…
• THE HOOK: 1968. On the drive home after a perfect day, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth's fiancé tells her he isn't a diplomat. He's MI6. And if she marries him, so is she.
• BASED ON A TRUE STORY: Written by first cousins Juliet Clibborn, on whose life the novel is based, and Angie Sage. Juliet traveled the world with her 'diplomat' husband until his death in 2017.
• BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR: Angie Sage is the author of the New York Times bestselling Septimus Heap series, a name millions of US readers grew up with.
•PRAISE: '...conveys the truth of experience more fully than a dozen conventional thrillers' Alan Judd.
• FOR FANS OF: Kate Quinn, Ava Glass and Slow Horses. Cold War Cyprus, a marriage built on secrets and a rare look at the spy's wife.
"The Spymaster’s Wife" was written by Liz Denchfield.
Liz Denchfield is the writing name for first cousins Juliet Clibborn and Angie Sage. Juliet, on whose life this novel is based, travelled the world with her ‘diplomat’ husband until his death in 2017. She lives in London and spends time at her home in southwest France. Angie is the bestselling author of the Septimus Heap, TodHunter Moon and Araminta Spook(ie) children’s books, and lives in Cornwall.