This book is both a spy story and a love story set during the Russian Revolution.
During the Revolution, author Arthur Ransome was a journalist based in Russia. He was well placed to have access to the Bolshevik leadership, while maintaining links with diplomats in the British Embassy.
He falls in love with a Russian woman, Eugenia. The book is deeply moving – I couldn’t put it down!
Lindsey, The Northampton Academy
This is a wonderful book! I loved the story of this unhappy teenager sent to a miserable boarding school in the 1960’s, a disppointment to his parents and unwilling to conform to fit in with the expectations of his third school.
His dull existance is transformed when he meets Finn, a mysterious teenager who lives alone in a beach hut and fends entirely for himself. The meetings with Finn become the centre of our characters world and he is unable to think of anything else.
The idyllic times are not to last and the story becomes tense with the dangers which face each character and I found this book exciting, dramatic, sensitive and a brilliant read.
Lesley, Oakgrove School
