A PRIVATE SPY: THE LETTERS OF JOHN LE CARRE 1945-2020

By John le Carre

Synopsis

A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live.

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Narrator Florence Pugh
Length 16hrs
Catalogue No. 16486
Publisher Penguin; 2022
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