The Secrets We Kept- Lara Prescott

‘No one looks twice at the women in the typing pool.

The secret is a book, the size of the one in your hands, and within its pages, a love story that could change the world.’

‘Mixing Mad Men and John le Carré’ is a pretty apt description but this book is so much more than a spy thriller. Split between Washington and Soviet Russia it’s a tale of people, the role of women spies and their relationships and all wrapped up in a secret cultural war- the war to publish Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago. This a a proper ‘tear-through-the-pages’ read that will appeal to just about anyone.