The Untouchable Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2012) The neighborhood is a bubble

The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble

passionate spirit of her native Corsica

are more serious undercurrents--of slavery

filled with its own quotidian horrors

his formidable aunt

The Untouchable Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2012) The neighborhood is a bubbleWINNER OF THE LANNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION From the Booker Prize winning author of The Sea comes the fascinating story of a former British spy who's been unmasked as a Russian agentand "one of spy fiction's greatest characters" (People). "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this." The New York Times Book ReviewOne of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of