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By the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lie. Forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the devastating power of exposure drive Helen Dunmore´s remarkable new novel.

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´A deceptively simple masterpiece´ Independent on Sunday´Will haunt you for months, if not years´ Guardian´Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one´ Good Housekeeping

London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets.

When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested.

His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall.

She knows that she too is in danger, and must fight to protect her children. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.

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"Helen Dunmore delivers a deceptively simple masterpiece, a new take on the lives of the men and -particularly - the women caught up in the cold war ... Exposure is magnificent" Cole Moreton Independent on Sunday

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Helen Dunmore is the author of fourteen novels. Her first, Zennor in Darkness , explored the events which led to D H Lawrence´s expulsion from Cornwall (on suspicion of spying) during the First World War. It won the McKitterick Prize. Her third novel, A Spell of Winter , won the inaugural Orange Prize, now the Bailey´s Prize for Women´s Fiction. Her bestselling novel The Siege , set during the Siege of Leningrad, was described by Antony Beevor as ´a world-class novel´ and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize. She has also written a ghost story, The Greatcoat , under the Hammer imprint.

She is fascinated by the Cold War era, which was also the era of her childhood, and is the setting for Exposure , and by the secrets, betrayals, loves, lies and loyalties which make up the period´s intimate history.

Helen Dunmore´s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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