{"product_id":"2026600003039-secondhand-spies","title":"Spies","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of literary suspense, Spies by Michael Frayn chronicles the story of an elderly man, Stephen Wheatley, who returns in memory to his suburban English childhood during World War II, where he and his best friend Keith became convinced that Keith's mother was a German spy. With quiet, mounting tension, the novel uncovers how the innocent games of two boys spiral into something far more dangerous and morally complex than either could have anticipated. Frayn illustrates the profound gap between childhood perception and adult reality, revealing how memory distorts, conceals, and ultimately reshapes the truth of what we have witnessed. Written in a beautifully controlled, elegiac prose style, the narrative presents a meditation on secrecy, complicity, and the irreversible losses of youth. Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, Spies stands as one of the most acclaimed British novels of the early twenty-first century, celebrated for its psychological depth and its haunting portrait of a world on the edge of catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810638803163,"sku":"2026600003039-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4d8819cd-eb51-4c57-b71a-3e621c2c62cc.png?v=1779806423","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600003039-secondhand-spies","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}