![]() ![]() The novel is inspired by the life of Melinda Marling, the American-born wife of Cambridge spy Donald Maclean, but it inhabits a different universe from that of such writers as John le Carré. But just how successful is this change of gears? Those expecting such fare will be in for a surprise – if there is one genre A Quiet Life moves in, it’s the very different territory of the espionage novel, with its attendant betrayals. What would you expect of the first novel by the feminist writer Natasha Walter? Surely the author of such books as Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism and The New Feminism might reasonably be expected to grind a few ideological axes in her fiction debut? A 21st-century take, perhaps, on Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room? A Quiet Life, by Natasha Walter The Borough Press, £14.99 ![]()
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