Helen Dunmore. (2016). Exposure. Grove Atlantic.

Helen Dunmore. 2016. Exposure. Grove Atlantic.

Helen Dunmore, Exposure. Grove Atlantic, 2016.

Helen Dunmore. Exposure. Grove Atlantic, 2016.

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   • bioText: Helen Dunmore is the author of twelve books, including The Lie, The Greatcoat; The Betrayal, a New York Times Editors' Choice; The Siege, a bestseller and finalist for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; and A Spell of Winter, winner of the Orange Prize.
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“An unconventional thriller [and] a page turner . . . As much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
In 1960 London, the Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file.
 
At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon’s wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure.
 
“Dunmore’s strategy, placing a triangle of past and present loves within a spy novel, yields an unexpected dividend. Even the most ordinary elements of life—the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children, meeting someone special, what remains unsaid within a marriage—become viscerally exciting.” —The New Yorker
 
“Exposure is many things at once—an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant’s tale . . . A novel you won’t be able to shake.” —Entertainment Weekly
 
“One of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of desolation as you note the dwindling number of pages left before it comes to an end.” —Chicago Tribune
 

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   • source: Kate Hamer, New York Times Book Review
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     “Dunmore has always been fantastic on the complexity of people's motivations and the secret reasons they act as they do. This book is no exception . . . This may be an unconventional thriller, but it's still a page turner for that . . . As the narrative unfolds we realize that this is the novel's beating heart: It's as much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies."

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   • content: "Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook, Exposure is many things at once--an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant's tale--and it assumes these varied identities with confidence . . . [it is] a novel you won't be able to shake."
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   • content: “Dunmore's strategy, placing a triangle of past and present loves within a spy novel, yields an unexpected dividend. Even the most ordinary elements of life--the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children, meeting someone special, what remains unsaid within a marriage--become viscerally exciting."
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   • source: Chicago Tribune
   • content: "[Exposure] takes the form of a spy novel but one that has been quietly and ingeniously deepened well beyond the ambitions of genre . . . [it] is one of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of desolation as you note the dwindling number of pages left before it comes to an end."
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   • content: “[Dunmore has] created an unforgettable family whose ties are strong enough to endure what might have defeated most of us. Whose members grow and change with a kind of fortitude rarely depicted in the modern novel. There are resemblances to Virginia Woolf not only in the terrific prose but also in Helen Dunmore's awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said . . . Dunmore moves from present to past with uncommon ease; she also moves from one point of view to another with elegance and authority, proving that there are no rules in writing fiction, only what you can do convincingly. And we are absolutely convinced by this story . . . a luminous story of courage and forgiveness."
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   • source: New York Journal of Books
   • content: “Beautifully crafted . . . a very enjoyable read."
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   • source: Penelope Lively
   • content: "This book is a triumph--a marvelous piece of seamless storytelling. The characters are so persuasive, as is the period flavor, while the plot is masterly--I kept thinking I could see where we were going next, and then we didn't. This is an imaginative new take on the Cold War thriller, so convincingly told and peopled that you surface from it surprised to be back in 2015."
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   • source: Mavis Cheek
   • content: "Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It's gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama--but always laced with her trademark humanity. I was totally caught up in the story which is paced perfectly. Her best book yet."
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     February 1, 2016
     Dunmore’s (The Lie) novel of Cold War domestic intrigue depicts secrets, lies, treachery, and murder amid the seemingly safe surroundings of 1960s England. Facades begin crumbling and cover stories unravel when Admiralty member and master of concealment Giles Holloway drunkenly falls in his apartment while photographing a top secret file. From his hospital bed, with a leg in a cast and an arm hooked to transfusion tubes, Giles calls his colleague and longtime friend Simon Callington and asks him to return the file to the office before its absence becomes known. Giles believes Simon will comply because Simon owes Giles his job, and because Giles has something on Simon: they were once lovers. Now a husband with three children, Simon agrees to do Giles’s bidding until he realizes Giles is spying for the Russians, almost certainly not alone. Simon places the file in Giles’s briefcase and hides it; his wife, Lily, soon discovers it in their hallway closet behind the Wellington boots. Born Jewish in Nazi Germany, Lily knows how to handle herself under duress. As Simon is wrongly imprisoned for espionage, she buries the briefcase, relocates the family to Kent, and navigates her way through false accusations and unsettling truths. Dunmore deftly creates a noir atmosphere, revealing layers of complexity in personal relationships darkened by non-battlefield conflict and blending psychological observations reminiscent of Henry James with le Carré–esque betrayals.

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      Starred review from February 1, 2016
      Prolific British author Dunmore, who has published poetry, children's literature, and a range of adult fiction (The Lie, 2014, etc.), shifts gears yet again with this Cold War-era spy drama. Drama as opposed to mystery because there is no question about who's passing secrets. Readers know early on that Giles Holloway and his spymaster, Julian Clowde, are moles in the British Admiralty, where Julian holds a high position. This is 1960, the defection of actual spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean is public knowledge, and Giles senses he's being watched. One night after photographing a file for Julian in his secret attic office, Giles falls down his stairs in a fluke accident that leaves him seriously injured. Since Julian is unavailable in Venice, Giles calls co-worker Simon Callington from his hospital bed to ask a favor: get the file and return it to Julian's desk. But Simon is clearly no spy, merely a middling civil servant without ambition. After an unhappy childhood being bullied by his brothers, all Simon cares about is the haven of normalcy he has created with his children and wife, Lily, a Jew who escaped Germany in 1937 and remains fearfully conscious of her outsider status in England. But out of lingering affection and guilt--before meeting Lily, while still a student at Cambridge, he broke off an intense love affair with Giles--Simon agrees to retrieve the file against his better judgment. When he sees the designation "Top Secret," Simon realizes that Giles lacked authorization to read the file, let alone bring it home, and was probably spying. Afraid that returning it will place Simon himself under suspicion, he brings the file home, where Lily finds it and does whatever she considers necessary to save her family. This subtle, off-kilter foray into John le Carre territory--a chilling, thoughtful, deeply romantic drama about the collateral damage suffered by those on the periphery of world events--displays Dunmore's gifts as one of today's most elegant and versatile storytellers.

      COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from April 1, 2016
      

      Simon Callington--an officer safely entrenched in the middle of the British Admiralty--is estranged from his aristocratic family and has a German Jewish wife, with whom he has three children, at least one of whom is a nerdy trainspotter. It being 1960, then, there's something decidedly off about our Simon. When a higher government official (and Simon's lover when they were both at Cambridge) becomes incapacitated and needs to cover up the presence of a classified document in his flat, he summons Simon to do the dirty deed. Simon accedes, and that small gesture begins the unraveling of his and his family's lives amid charges of Soviet treachery splashed across the front pages of the tabloids. Beneath the framework of this spy thriller is a keenly observed and etched portrait of a marriage and a society too buttoned up for their own good. Clearly no James Bond and less adept than George Smiley, simple Simon and his faithful and quite resourceful wife, who is a more than equal partner, manage to exist in pressure-cooker Britain where everything from the buildings, atmosphere, and clothes to the faces are as gray as the kidney served up at tea. VERDICT One measure of the novel's success is that, by its conclusion, the reader is left gasping for a breath of fresh air.--Bob Lunn, Kansas City, MO

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from April 15, 2016
      Dunmore's latest historical novel may look like a classic espionage tale, but, in fact, it uses the Cold War landscape to tell a broader story about a woman's courage and a family in crisis. When Simon Callington, a mid-level bureaucrat working for Naval Intelligence, is summoned by his mentor, Giles Holloway, in hospital after a drunken fall, to retrieve a top-secret file from his flat, the nightmare begins. Soon Simon has been arrested as a spy, and his wife, Lily, a German Jew who escaped the Nazis, finds herself and her two children sucked into the scandal. She loses her teaching job and is forced to move with the children from London to a dreary cottage on the wrong side of Kentstoking an inadequate coal furnace, scrabbling for food, despairing over the fate of her husband. Remembering her experiences in Germany, she realizes again what she has always known: The world has battering rams, if it chooses to use them. Yes, spies provide the frame story, but Dunmore's focus is on how her characters must confront the past: Lily dealing with those ubiquitous battering rams, Simon coming to terms with the affair he had at Cambridge with Giles, and Gilesperhaps the most arresting figure in a cast rich with multifaceted charactersabsorbing the full weight of a lifetime of betrayal, even in the face of love. Readers who pick up this novel looking for cloak-and-dagger suspense may be disappointed, but those open to a slower-paced investigation of human relationships will find traces of Margaret Drabble and even E. M. Forster, whose famous dictum, only connect, echoes across every page.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon’s wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure.
 
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