Clare Mulley
Auteur van The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Werken van Clare Mulley
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1969
- Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Bene Merito
- Agent
- Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 4
- Leden
- 456
- Populariteit
- #53,831
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 7
- ISBNs
- 32
- Talen
- 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).… (meer)