Clare Mulley
Auteur de The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Œuvres de Clare Mulley
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry (2017) 85 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1969
- Sexe
- female
- Lieu de naissance
- Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Prix et distinctions
- Bene Merito
- Agent
- Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 456
- Popularité
- #53,831
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 32
- Langues
- 2
Christina's is an interesting life, but not one that I think Clare Mulley fully does justice. There's no getting around the relative lack of sources—Christina doesn't seem to have been given much to writing or to reflection, and many papers about her were accidentally or deliberately destroyed—but even taking that into account I didn't feel as if Mulley ever got a proper handle on her subject. The portrait she provides of Christina is out of focus and sometimes at odds with itself (we're often told she's an introverted loner but often encounter her at parties and celebrations, and she had multiple relationships), and the structure isn't as good as it could be. I'm glad that Christina's story has been told, though, and that Mulley made a diligent attempt to separate fact from myth (it's unlikely, for instance, that Ian Fleming had an affair with her and used her as the model for Vesper Lynd).… (plus d'informations)