The Spy Who Loved

A stunning biographical achievement – Alison Weir, lison Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth
Clare Mulley tells her story with a bravura that matches Christine’s charismatic character * Saga *
A fine account of Christine Granville’s extraordinary war, told with skill and care … Mulley succeeds in making her human … inspiring * Literary Review *
Compulsively readable … Clare Mulley has done a dogged piece of detective work piecing together Christine’s ultimately tragic life. Understandably obsessed by her charismatic subject, she has written a thrilling book and paid due homage to a difficult woman who seized life with both hands * Daily Telegraph *
A breath-taking story, told with panache and sympathy for an extraordinary heroine. Mulley vividly brings to life not only a resourceful and unusual woman but in doing so helps us understand what makes an ordinary person act with superhuman courage in times of adversity. The Spy Who Loved is required reading for anyone interested in understanding what makes an ordinary person act with superhuman courage in times of adversity. This is a gripping read – Anne Sebba, New York Times bestselling author of That Woman
Not only was Christine Granville Britain’s first woman agent in World War II but carried out some of the most daring missions ever conceived. Her biographer Clare Mulley has provided a vivid account of her activities yet maintains a balanced assessment of the results. Careful research has created sustained tension, vitality and immediacy which are truly page-turning – Gordon Thomas, bestselling author of The Pope’s Jews and Gideon’s Spies
I enjoyed and admired The Spy Who Loved … A really gripping account of the remarkable Christine Granville – Simon Mawer, bestselling author of Trapeze and The Glass Room
An astonishing story, brilliantly told. If a Hollywood movie isn’t made about Christine Granville’s remarkable life, I’d be amazed – Charles Cumming, award-winning author of A Foreign Country
Impressively researched, and absolutely fascinating. Christine Granville is one of those women you can’t help wishing you’d met in real life – Jojo Moyes, award-winning author of Me Before You
Compulsively readable … Clare Mulley has done a dogged piece of detective work piecing together Christine’s ultimately tragic life… She has written a thrilling book, and paid overdue homage to a difficult woman who seized life with both hands * The Sunday Telegraph *
Mulley writes well … This is both a compelling read and a testimony to the work of a dedicated opponent of Nazism. I highly recommend it * BBC History Magazine *
Spellbinding saga of espionage and adventure * Vogue.com *
Admirable and overdue – Ben Macintyre, The New York Times Book Review
Oustanding … While a few books about Christine have emerged in the intervening decades, only now, with the publication of Clare Mulley’s scrupulously researched and expertly rendered biography, do we have a multi-dimensional, uncensored, impartial portrait of the legendary spy – said to be Churchill’s favorite – whose forty-four-year existence was filled with more eye-popping adventures than we’d find plausible in any novel or movie * The Daily Beast *
Well-written and thoroughly researched … One British functionary described [Granville’s] dispatches from the field as ‘good reading.’ The same can be said of Ms. Mulley’s biography of this extraordinary woman * Wall Street Journal *
Excellent … A romping adventure of international espionage, grand plots and sex, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance … [a] well-researched portrayal, a fascinating and riveting account of an exceptional spy’s exceptional life … An exemplary feminist biography, which, without ever slipping into didacticism, takes its subject, her desires and her choices seriously * Haaretz *
A dazzling tale * Maclean’s *
Mulley gives a remarkable, charismatic woman her due in this tantalizing biography – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Compulsively readable … Clare Mulley has done a dogged piece of detective work piecing together Christine’s ultimately tragic life … She has written a thrilling book, and paid overdue homage to a difficult woman who seized life with both hands – The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Brings alive a glamorous, swashbuckling heroine – The Sunday Times (UK)
Engrossing biography details the high-voltage life of one of Britain’s most remarkable female spies … Fascinating – Mail on Sunday (UK)

Clare Mulley is the author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009), which won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize.

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