Recommended if you like: Alias, imagining that your mother is distant because she has a fantastic double life
Restless is a very readable novel about a contemporary British grad student/single mom who discovers that her mother was a spy during WWII. The chapters go back and forth between the daughters daily life (procrastinating on her thesis, taking care of her son, and giving English lessons) and her mother's
I realized what disappointed me about this portrait of spying was that it made it all look easy -- as if anyone, with the right training, could pull it off. That takes the fun out of it for me. However very enjoyable cloak & dagger escapades got me through the Chinatown bus ride from Philadelphia to DC.
I think Booklist said it best:
"If an espionage thriller...can be called a cozy, this is it....A somewhat clumsy narrative enlivened by some expertly generated suspense."
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