Brought to you by Penguin. In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that
occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has
renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small
English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career Julian's evening is
disrupted by a visitor. Edward a Polish émigré living in Silverview the big house on the edge
of town seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner
workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in
London warning him of a dangerous leak the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the
sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience
and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré the greatest
chronicler of our age seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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