I have always been good at pretending.” Now, fearing torture and death, she buys herself a little more time by writing down everything she knows about the British war effort-location of airfields, types of aircraft, anything. “I wanted to be heroic and I pretended I was. They’re essential to the story.Īnyway, the book is set during World War II, and it opens with a Scottish woman whose name we do not know (we later learn her code name is Verity) writing a confession to her Nazi interrogators. This book is less twisty than I expected, but the twists aren’t gimmicks. And talk of twists always makes me want to know what the twist is, as long as it’s not a stupid one thrown in at the end for the sake of twistiness. (See, for example, the reviews by Ana, Jenny, and Amy.) This is all pretty much like catnip to me, so of course I wanted to read it. Mostly, I kept hearing about unreliable narrators, spies, female friendship, secrets, twists, and big questions about the nature of truth. And most of the reviews I read said that to say much about it would be spoilery. Last year, this novel by Elizabeth Wein was all over the internet, landing on many bloggers’ top 10 lists of the year.
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