Nora & John

<p><strong>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: </strong>Narrative that is direct candid unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society… reduced to a ‘mozho’ girl mixing with foreigners with instructions to report on them… the real story is in the simple graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations – some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome.</p><p>In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin’s secret police as a honey trap or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees.  </p><p>Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target John Murray a British Embassy cypher in Moscow.</p><p>As two disparate lives intertwine their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.</p>