A sunlit weapon winspear7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The sisters are trained in sabotage and self-defense. It's easy for schoolgirls to appear innocuous as they count the number of trains that pass by their village. Some time later, a mysterious woman named Isabelle approaches their mother and recruits the two girls to spy on the Germans. Back in 1914, in Belgium, 10-year-old Elinor, youngest daughter of a Belgian father and English mother, tries to catch a boat to England along with her mother and sister, Cecily, before the German advance, but they're too late and return to their home, now under occupation. ![]() In interspersed chapters we learn about the background that Elinor keeps to herself: She was a spy during both world wars. Jim comes from a family of notorious London gangsters, and when they want him to return to the fold, they'll resort to violence to convince him. A farmworkers's cottage nearby is home to the Mackie family: Jim, Rose, and little Susie, who befriends the wary Elinor. In 1947, Elinor White lives in a village in Kent in a grace-and-favor house, rewarded for her service to the crown, and keeps her own counsel. ![]() A poignant story of courage, misogyny, and misused power. ![]()
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