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🇬🇧 Sixties London

Swinging London in all its mod glory — the music, the fashion, the cultural upheaval of a city reinventing itself as the center of the youth revolution.
The Spirit of London
by Boris Johnson • 2011
Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.
3.85
881
🏙️ Urban History🇬🇧 London History👥 Collective Biography
The Spirit of London Summary
The Spirit of London 89%
Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.
by Boris Johnson 2011
3.85
881 ratings
🏙️ Urban History🇬🇧 London History👥 Collective Biography
The Shadows of London
by Nick Jones • 2021
A time traveler must prevent a 1963 London murder, or the sister he rescued will be erased.
4.07
5k+
🕰️ Time Travel Mystery🇬🇧 1960s London🔄 Altered Timeline
The Shadows of London Summary
The Shadows of London 89%
A time traveler must prevent a 1963 London murder, or the sister he rescued will be erased.
by Nick Jones 2021
4.07
5k+ ratings
🕰️ Time Travel Mystery🇬🇧 1960s London🔄 Altered Timeline
Heatwave
by John L. Williams • 2025
A record-breaking heatwave, a nation on the brink: how the summer of 1976 remade Britain.
3.89
134
📚 Social History🔍 Microhistory🚔 Race And Policing
Heatwave Summary
Heatwave 88%
A record-breaking heatwave, a nation on the brink: how the summer of 1976 remade Britain.
by John L. Williams 2025
3.89
134 ratings
📚 Social History🔍 Microhistory🚔 Race And Policing
Here, There and Everywhere
by Geoff Emerick • 2006
The Beatles' most radical sounds were built by a teenager breaking every rule at Abbey Road.
4.29
7k+
🎸 Beatles History🎛️ Music Production🏢 Recording Studios
Here, There and Everywhere Summary
Here, There and Everywhere 88%
The Beatles' most radical sounds were built by a teenager breaking every rule at Abbey Road.
by Geoff Emerick 2006
4.29
7k+ ratings
🎸 Beatles History🎛️ Music Production🏢 Recording Studios
The Lowlife
by Alexander Baron • 1963
A Hackney gambler drifts from bet to bet until a boy raises stakes luck cannot cover.
4.25
794
🏙️ Social Realism🎰 Compulsive Gambling👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood
The Lowlife Summary
The Lowlife 88%
A Hackney gambler drifts from bet to bet until a boy raises stakes luck cannot cover.
by Alexander Baron 1963
4.25
794 ratings
🏙️ Social Realism🎰 Compulsive Gambling👨‍👦 Surrogate Fatherhood
One Train Later
by Andy Summers • 2006
A missed train would have erased The Police. A life in the balance.
4.04
1k+
🎸 Rock Guitarists🥁 Band Histories🎨 Creative Process
One Train Later Summary
One Train Later 88%
A missed train would have erased The Police. A life in the balance.
by Andy Summers 2006
4.04
1k+ ratings
🎸 Rock Guitarists🥁 Band Histories🎨 Creative Process
Tune In
by Mark Lewisohn • 2013
Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.
4.72
4k+
🇬🇧 British Invasion⚓️ Merseybeat🎤 Music Industry
Tune In Summary
Tune In 88%
Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.
by Mark Lewisohn 2013
4.72
4k+ ratings
🇬🇧 British Invasion⚓️ Merseybeat🎤 Music Industry
At Bertram's Hotel
by Agatha Christie • 1965
Miss Marple checks into a London hotel where the old-world perfection hides a criminal enterprise.
3.71
48k+
🔍 Classic Whodunit👵 Amateur Sleuth💰 Inheritance Scheme
At Bertram's Hotel Summary
At Bertram's Hotel 88%
Miss Marple checks into a London hotel where the old-world perfection hides a criminal enterprise.
by Agatha Christie 1965
3.71
48k+ ratings
🔍 Classic Whodunit👵 Amateur Sleuth💰 Inheritance Scheme
A Freewheelin' Time
by Suze Rotolo • 2008
The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.
3.85
4k+
🎵 Folk Music Revival🎸 Music Memoirs✌️ 1960s Counterculture
A Freewheelin' Time Summary
A Freewheelin' Time 87%
The girl on Dylan's Freewheelin' cover reclaims her life from the image that buried it.
by Suze Rotolo 2008
3.85
4k+ ratings
🎵 Folk Music Revival🎸 Music Memoirs✌️ 1960s Counterculture
SMiLE
by Domenic Priore • 2005
His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.
3.80
145
🎸 1960s Music📼 Lost Albums⚔️ Creative Differences
SMiLE Summary
SMiLE 87%
His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.
by Domenic Priore 2005
3.80
145 ratings
🎸 1960s Music📼 Lost Albums⚔️ Creative Differences
The Third Girl by Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie • 1966
When an heiress fears she committed murder, Poirot discovers someone is poisoning her mind.
3.69
39k+
🌀 Gaslighting Mystery🎭 Identity Swap🔍 Amateur Sleuth
The Third Girl by Agatha Christie Summary
The Third Girl by Agatha Christie 87%
When an heiress fears she committed murder, Poirot discovers someone is poisoning her mind.
by Agatha Christie 1966
3.69
39k+ ratings
🌀 Gaslighting Mystery🎭 Identity Swap🔍 Amateur Sleuth
The Buddha of Suburbia
by Hanif Kureishi • 1990
A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.
3.75
21k+
🏙️ 1970s Britain🎭 Suburban Satire💜 Bisexual Awakening
The Buddha of Suburbia Summary
The Buddha of Suburbia 87%
A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.
by Hanif Kureishi 1990
3.75
21k+ ratings
🏙️ 1970s Britain🎭 Suburban Satire💜 Bisexual Awakening
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon • 1956
Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.
3.70
14k+
🛳️ Windrush Generation🧳 Immigrant Experience🏙️ Postwar London
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners 87%
Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.
by Sam Selvon 1956
3.70
14k+ ratings
🛳️ Windrush Generation🧳 Immigrant Experience🏙️ Postwar London
The Ipcress File
by Len Deighton • 1962
A cynical agent tracks missing scientists into a brainwashing plot where his own side is the enemy.
3.91
18k+
🕵️ Cold War Espionage🧠 Brainwashing Conspiracy🌀 Unreliable Narrator
The Ipcress File Summary
The Ipcress File 87%
A cynical agent tracks missing scientists into a brainwashing plot where his own side is the enemy.
by Len Deighton 1962
3.91
18k+ ratings
🕵️ Cold War Espionage🧠 Brainwashing Conspiracy🌀 Unreliable Narrator
The Rotters' Club
by Jonathan Coe • 2001
Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.
3.96
16k+
🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age🇬🇧 1970s England💔 Unrequited First Love
The Rotters' Club Summary
The Rotters' Club 87%
Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.
by Jonathan Coe 2001
3.96
16k+ ratings
🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age🇬🇧 1970s England💔 Unrequited First Love
Bloomsbury Girls
by Natalie Jenner • 2022
Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.
3.85
18k+
🏪 Bookshop Fiction🇬🇧 Postwar London👯 Female Friendship
Bloomsbury Girls Summary
Bloomsbury Girls 87%
Three bookshop women in postwar London hunt a lost novel to claim ownership of the shop.
by Natalie Jenner 2022
3.85
18k+ ratings
🏪 Bookshop Fiction🇬🇧 Postwar London👯 Female Friendship
The Intellectual Devotional
by David S. Kidder
365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.
3.90
687
📚 Cultural Literacy🇺🇸 American History✌️ The 1960s
The Intellectual Devotional Summary
The Intellectual Devotional 87%
365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.
by David S. Kidder
3.90
687 ratings
📚 Cultural Literacy🇺🇸 American History✌️ The 1960s
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
by Grace Jones • 2015
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
3.76
2k+
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
I'll Never Write My Memoirs Summary
I'll Never Write My Memoirs 87%
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
by Grace Jones 2015
3.76
2k+ ratings
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
David Bowie
by Dylan Jones • 2017
An oral history of David Bowie, built from 180 voices who watched the transformations up close.
4.04
2k+
🎸 Rock Biography🎙️ Oral History🔄 Artistic Reinvention
David Bowie Summary
David Bowie 87%
An oral history of David Bowie, built from 180 voices who watched the transformations up close.
by Dylan Jones 2017
4.04
2k+ ratings
🎸 Rock Biography🎙️ Oral History🔄 Artistic Reinvention
I Used to Be Charming
by Eve Babitz • 2019
Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.
4.13
2k+
🌴 Los Angeles History✌️ American Counterculture📝 New Journalism
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming 87%
Eve Babitz captured 1960s LA. These late essays show what happened when the charm wore off.
by Eve Babitz 2019
4.13
2k+ ratings
🌴 Los Angeles History✌️ American Counterculture📝 New Journalism
Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym • 1952
A clergyman’s daughter hides her feelings, until new neighbors pull her into their marital chaos.
3.91
22k+
😏 Comedy Of Manners⛪ Church Community Life🫣 Self-Deprecating Narrator
Excellent Women Summary
Excellent Women 86%
A clergyman’s daughter hides her feelings, until new neighbors pull her into their marital chaos.
by Barbara Pym 1952
3.91
22k+ ratings
😏 Comedy Of Manners⛪ Church Community Life🫣 Self-Deprecating Narrator
Paper Money
by Ken Follett • 1987
A blackmailed minister's leak fuels a bank heist and stock scheme; the press buries the story.
3.41
13k+
🏦 Financial Thriller💰 Bank Heist🎭 Political Blackmail
Paper Money Summary
Paper Money 86%
A blackmailed minister's leak fuels a bank heist and stock scheme; the press buries the story.
by Ken Follett 1987
3.41
13k+ ratings
🏦 Financial Thriller💰 Bank Heist🎭 Political Blackmail
Wouldn't it Be Nice
by Charles L. Granata • 2003
Brian Wilson quit the road, made an album America ignored, and Britain crowned it a masterpiece.
3.93
513
🎧 Album Deep Dives🎛️ Music Production✍️ Songwriting Process
Wouldn't it Be Nice Summary
Wouldn't it Be Nice 86%
Brian Wilson quit the road, made an album America ignored, and Britain crowned it a masterpiece.
by Charles L. Granata 2003
3.93
513 ratings
🎧 Album Deep Dives🎛️ Music Production✍️ Songwriting Process
Understanding John Lennon
by Francis Kenny • 2020
Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.
4.00
9
🎸 Music Biography🎵 Rock History💔 Childhood Trauma
Understanding John Lennon Summary
Understanding John Lennon 86%
Three forces made John Lennon, then broke him: Liverpool, a lost mother, and McCartney.
by Francis Kenny 2020
4.00
9 ratings
🎸 Music Biography🎵 Rock History💔 Childhood Trauma
What's It All About
by Michael Caine • 1992
A charity ward birth, a fish-porter father, and a Cockney accent that Hollywood couldn't erase.
4.07
1k+
🎬 Celebrity Memoir🎥 Hollywood Memoir🇬🇧 British Cinema
What's It All About Summary
What's It All About 86%
A charity ward birth, a fish-porter father, and a Cockney accent that Hollywood couldn't erase.
by Michael Caine 1992
4.07
1k+ ratings
🎬 Celebrity Memoir🎥 Hollywood Memoir🇬🇧 British Cinema
NW
by Zadie Smith • 2012
Two childhood friends, one London estate. One stayed, one climbed. Neither escaped who she was.
3.48
46k+
🔀 Fragmented Narrative🏙️ Social Realism↔️ Diverging Paths
NW Summary
NW 86%
Two childhood friends, one London estate. One stayed, one climbed. Neither escaped who she was.
by Zadie Smith 2012
3.48
46k+ ratings
🔀 Fragmented Narrative🏙️ Social Realism↔️ Diverging Paths
The Five
by Hallie Rubenhold • 2019
Jack the Ripper killed five women. The label pinned on three of them was a lie.
4.09
69k+
🏙️ Victorian London📖 Social History✊ Feminist History
The Five Summary
The Five 86%
Jack the Ripper killed five women. The label pinned on three of them was a lie.
by Hallie Rubenhold 2019
4.09
69k+ ratings
🏙️ Victorian London📖 Social History✊ Feminist History
Case Study
by Graeme Macrae Burnet • 2021
Believing a therapist drove her sister to suicide, she enters his consulting room under an alias.
3.56
12k+
📚 Metafictional Mystery🇬🇧 1960s London🎭 Unreliable Narrator
Case Study Summary
Case Study 86%
Believing a therapist drove her sister to suicide, she enters his consulting room under an alias.
by Graeme Macrae Burnet 2021
3.56
12k+ ratings
📚 Metafictional Mystery🇬🇧 1960s London🎭 Unreliable Narrator
The Full English
by Stuart Maconie • 2023
England, 90 years on: the mills gone, class divides intact, a startling diversity.
4.04
1k+
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Identity📖 Literary Travel🏭 Deindustrialization
The Full English Summary
The Full English 86%
England, 90 years on: the mills gone, class divides intact, a startling diversity.
by Stuart Maconie 2023
4.04
1k+ ratings
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Identity📖 Literary Travel🏭 Deindustrialization
Below Stairs
by Margaret Powell • 1968
She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.
3.58
15k+
🧹 Domestic Service👷 Working Class Memoir🇬🇧 British Social History
Below Stairs Summary
Below Stairs 86%
She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.
by Margaret Powell 1968
3.58
15k+ ratings
🧹 Domestic Service👷 Working Class Memoir🇬🇧 British Social History
Don’t Forget to Write
by Sara Goodman Confino • 2023
Exiled to her matchmaker aunt's, a co-ed falls for a lifeguard with a secret.
4.48
79k+
☀️ 1960s Summer👵 Matchmaker Aunt🏊 Summer Fling
Don’t Forget to Write Summary
Don’t Forget to Write 86%
Exiled to her matchmaker aunt's, a co-ed falls for a lifeguard with a secret.
by Sara Goodman Confino 2023
4.48
79k+ ratings
☀️ 1960s Summer👵 Matchmaker Aunt🏊 Summer Fling
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing • 1999
A London writer splits her life among four notebooks. The woman between them is coming apart.
3.77
25k+
🧩 Fragmented Narrative👯 Female Friendship🏴 Political Disillusion
The Golden Notebook Summary
The Golden Notebook 86%
A London writer splits her life among four notebooks. The woman between them is coming apart.
by Doris Lessing 1999
3.77
25k+ ratings
🧩 Fragmented Narrative👯 Female Friendship🏴 Political Disillusion
A Theatre for Dreamers
by Polly Samson • 2021
A motherless girl joins a Greek island's artists and learns who pays for their golden summer.
3.40
6k+
🎨 Real Artists Fictionalized🍷 Bohemian Expats🌿 Women Behind Genius
A Theatre for Dreamers Summary
A Theatre for Dreamers 86%
A motherless girl joins a Greek island's artists and learns who pays for their golden summer.
by Polly Samson 2021
3.40
6k+ ratings
🎨 Real Artists Fictionalized🍷 Bohemian Expats🌿 Women Behind Genius
The White Album
by Joan Didion • 1979
A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.
4.02
51k+
🔍 Cultural Criticism📰 New Journalism✌️ Sixties Counterculture
The White Album Summary
The White Album 86%
A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.
by Joan Didion 1979
4.02
51k+ ratings
🔍 Cultural Criticism📰 New Journalism✌️ Sixties Counterculture
The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt • 2007
Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker: Shakespeare, eraser dust, and Holling's certainty she wants him gone.
4.12
48k+
📜 Shakespeare In School🤝 Unlikely Mentorship🌅 Bittersweet Coming Of Age
The Wednesday Wars Summary
The Wednesday Wars 86%
Wednesdays with Mrs. Baker: Shakespeare, eraser dust, and Holling's certainty she wants him gone.
by Gary D. Schmidt 2007
4.12
48k+ ratings
📜 Shakespeare In School🤝 Unlikely Mentorship🌅 Bittersweet Coming Of Age
Bruce Lee
by Bruce Lee • 2001
A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.
4.21
1k+
🏙️ Midcentury America🧒 American Childhood📷 Nostalgia Memoir
Bruce Lee Summary
Bruce Lee 86%
A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.
by Bruce Lee 2001
4.21
1k+ ratings
🏙️ Midcentury America🧒 American Childhood📷 Nostalgia Memoir
The Flamethrowers
by Rachel Kushner • 2013
A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.
3.51
25k+
🎨 1970s Art World💫 Artist And Muse💰 Old Money Family
The Flamethrowers Summary
The Flamethrowers 86%
A motorcyclist turns speed into art, then follows her Italian lover into his family's violent world.
by Rachel Kushner 2013
3.51
25k+ ratings
🎨 1970s Art World💫 Artist And Muse💰 Old Money Family
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
by Andrew Lycett • 2007
Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.
3.91
299
📚 Literary Biography👑 Victorian England🔍 Detective Fiction
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes 86%
Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.
by Andrew Lycett 2007
3.91
299 ratings
📚 Literary Biography👑 Victorian England🔍 Detective Fiction
Municipal Dreams
by John Boughton • 2018
Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.
3.92
769
🏠 Social Housing🏙️ Urban History📋 Housing Policy
Municipal Dreams Summary
Municipal Dreams 86%
Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.
by John Boughton 2018
3.92
769 ratings
🏠 Social Housing🏙️ Urban History📋 Housing Policy
Body Language
by A.K. Turner • 2020
A mortuary tech who reads the dead defies the police to prove her teacher was murdered.
3.96
6k+
🔬 Forensic Mystery🔎 Amateur Sleuth🚔 Police Procedural
Body Language Summary
Body Language 86%
A mortuary tech who reads the dead defies the police to prove her teacher was murdered.
by A.K. Turner 2020
3.96
6k+ ratings
🔬 Forensic Mystery🔎 Amateur Sleuth🚔 Police Procedural
Spycatcher
by Peter Wright • 1987
MI5's first scientist built secret listening devices, then spent his career hunting a Soviet mole.
3.73
3k+
🕵️ Cold War Espionage🇬🇧 British Intelligence📡 Technical Surveillance
Spycatcher Summary
Spycatcher 86%
MI5's first scientist built secret listening devices, then spent his career hunting a Soviet mole.
by Peter Wright 1987
3.73
3k+ ratings
🕵️ Cold War Espionage🇬🇧 British Intelligence📡 Technical Surveillance
The English
by Jeremy Paxman • 1998
An island people built history's largest empire, then had to reinvent themselves once it crumbled.
3.55
3k+
🏴 National Identity🎩 Class And Society🌍 British Empire
The English Summary
The English 86%
An island people built history's largest empire, then had to reinvent themselves once it crumbled.
by Jeremy Paxman 1998
3.55
3k+ ratings
🏴 National Identity🎩 Class And Society🌍 British Empire
Saturday
by Ian McEwan • 2005
A neurosurgeon's unease over war and a volatile stranger threaten his family's Saturday dinner.
3.64
74k+
🕰️ Day In The Life🏚️ Home Invasion🌐 Post-9/11 Anxiety
Saturday Summary
Saturday 86%
A neurosurgeon's unease over war and a volatile stranger threaten his family's Saturday dinner.
by Ian McEwan 2005
3.64
74k+ ratings
🕰️ Day In The Life🏚️ Home Invasion🌐 Post-9/11 Anxiety
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie • 1977
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
4.13
13k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography 86%
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
by Agatha Christie 1977
4.13
13k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
Sex and Rage
by Eve Babitz • 2017
In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.
3.55
20k+
🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles🎬 Hollywood Facade🖋️ Female Artist Journey
Sex and Rage Summary
Sex and Rage 86%
In Hollywood parties and New York salons, a surfer chases the person the glamour keeps hiding.
by Eve Babitz 2017
3.55
20k+ ratings
🌴 Bohemian Los Angeles🎬 Hollywood Facade🖋️ Female Artist Journey
White Heat
by Dominic Sandbrook • 2006
The sixties were a myth of liberation. The reality was crisis, backlash, and decline.
4.38
917
🇬🇧 Postwar Britain📉 Economic Decline⛪ Cultural Conservatism
White Heat Summary
White Heat 86%
The sixties were a myth of liberation. The reality was crisis, backlash, and decline.
by Dominic Sandbrook 2006
4.38
917 ratings
🇬🇧 Postwar Britain📉 Economic Decline⛪ Cultural Conservatism
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby • 1995
A freshly dumped record store owner hunts down his exes to understand his romantic wreckage.
3.90
217k+
🎸 Lad Lit🎵 Music Obsession👶 Man Child
High Fidelity Summary
High Fidelity 86%
A freshly dumped record store owner hunts down his exes to understand his romantic wreckage.
by Nick Hornby 1995
3.90
217k+ ratings
🎸 Lad Lit🎵 Music Obsession👶 Man Child
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith • 2000
Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.
3.79
177k+
🇬🇧 Multicultural London👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga🌱 Children Of Immigrants
White Teeth Summary
White Teeth 86%
Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.
by Zadie Smith 2000
3.79
177k+ ratings
🇬🇧 Multicultural London👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga🌱 Children Of Immigrants
Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan • 2012
In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.
3.44
53k+
🕵️ Literary Espionage📖 Metafiction💔 Spy Falls In Love
Sweet Tooth Summary
Sweet Tooth 86%
In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.
by Ian McEwan 2012
3.44
53k+ ratings
🕵️ Literary Espionage📖 Metafiction💔 Spy Falls In Love
Days You Were Mine
by Clare Leslie Hall • 2019
A new father meets his birth mother, and her grief has been gathering for forty years.
3.97
9k+
🖤 Adoption Trauma🎨 1970s London⏳ Dual Timeline
Days You Were Mine Summary
Days You Were Mine 86%
A new father meets his birth mother, and her grief has been gathering for forty years.
by Clare Leslie Hall 2019
3.97
9k+ ratings
🖤 Adoption Trauma🎨 1970s London⏳ Dual Timeline
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