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For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined—and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history.
Ensnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must work quickly to balance her duty to King and Country with her chances for survival. And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her own family’s hidden secrets, she’ll discover that her quick wits are all that stand between an assassin’s murderous plan and Churchill himself.
In this daring debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the era, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, and the creation of a riveting main character, Maggie Hope, into a spectacularly crafted novel.
- Sales Rank: #23640 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-03
- Released on: 2012-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.20" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Review
Advance praise for Mr. Churchill's Secretary
“This wonderful debut is intelligent, richly detailed, and filled with suspense.”—Stefanie Pintoff
“A terrific read . . . Chock full of fascinating period details and real people including Winston Churchill, MacNeal’s fast-paced thriller gives a glimpse of the struggles, tensions, and dangers of life on the home front during World War II.”—Rhys Bowen, author of Royal Blood and winner of the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards
“Think early Ken Follett, amp it up with a whipsmart young American not averse to red lipstick and vintage cocktails, season it with espionage during the London Blitz, and you’ve got a heart-pounding, atmospheric debut. I loved it.”—Cara Black, author of Murder in Passy
“England in 1940 is the perfect backdrop for a courageous young woman who outwits the enemy. A vivid tapestry of wartime London.”—Carolyn Hart, author of Escape from Paris
“An engrossing page-turner, with a delightful and spirited new heroine in the aptly named Maggie Hope.”—C. C. Benison, author of Twelve Drummers Drumming
About the Author
Susan Elia MacNeal is the Barry Award–winning and Edgar, Dilys, and Macavity Award–nominated author of the Maggie Hope mysteries, including Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, His Majesty’s Hope, and The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband and child.
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133 of 141 people found the following review helpful.
Engaging WWII Home-Front Thriller
By R. Larkin
Maggie Hope, born in Britain but raised in the US by an aunt after the death of her parents, is astonished to learn that she is the heir of a grandmother she never knew. According to the terms of the will, she is required to go to Britain and settle the modest estate personally. So in the summer of 1939 she puts her plans for graduate school on hold and travels to London to sell her grandmother's house, despite her aunt's misgivings.
The rackety old Victorian proves difficult to sell and expensive to maintain, so when a couple of her friends quit their jobs and lose the associated housing with the American Embassy after Britain enters the war, she offers to take them in. As London fills up with workers for the war effort, a few more friends take refuge with Maggie, who has determined to stay and support her country of birth. To make ends meet, she takes a job in the Prime Minister's office as a typist, although she thinks it a waste of her degree in mathematics and her language skills.
Visiting the cemetery to lay flowers on the graves of her parents, killed in a traffic accident when she was very young, she is perplexed to find only her mother's grave. She queries her aunt, who confesses that her father had survived the accident, but went mad as a result, and has been permanently institutionalized. Maggie is determined to locate him.
Through a number of characters the story offers a fair representation of the widely differing opinions of Britons about the war. The entwined threads of the missing father and the home-grown terrorism rachet up the suspense to a satisfying and hair-raising conclusion. But the real charm for me is watching the characters cope with rationing, bombing raids, clothing coupons, and all the other vicissitudes - from inconvenience to mortal danger - of wartime London.
77 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
Quick Read Mystery
By Teresa Pietersen
This is not historical fiction but rather a mystery novel set in London 1940, at the end of the "false war" and the begining of the Blitz. The heroine, Maggie Hope, a London born American with a degree in maths, who is caught up in London when WWII starts in ernest. She's living in a seedy victorian house with several other girls who are trying to cope with rationing and air-raids, when she begins working at No 10 Downing Street as one of Churchills secretaries.
She finds herself involved in code breaking, discovering plots and trying to track down her father whom she discovers didn't die in the car crash that killed her mother.
It's an easy read, fast paced with a multi-stranded plot that includes MI5, the IRA, spies and Bletchley Park (the famous decoding center). It was spoiled for me in a few spots (I am a Brit and it was clear the author is not)with the odd phrase that a Brit wouldn't use (and definitely not in the England of 1940) and there were more than a few too many coincidences in the plot that did stretch belief.
Lots of intrigue, some good research into Sadlers Wells and the conversations amongst the characters about differing political views. On the whole it was a pleasant, quick read but not something to stretch the grey cells too much.
48 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
Minefield: Spoiler Alert!
By F. S. L'hoir
I quite enjoyed this book, with its engaging main character, Maggie Hope, a British-born American who, while closing her deceased grandmother's house, is caught in London by the outbreak of World War II. With time, I think that the Maggie mysteries could develop into a very good series, indeed. The author's handling of the various strands of the plot is clever, although she sometimes tipped her hand in planting false clues that seemed a bit obvious, inviting readerly speculation prematurely. Some episodes, however, called for a severe suspension of disbelief, as when it doesn't seem to occur to Maggie, the bright young mathematician, that the simple morse she is decoding, which initially makes no sense, might actually be in the language of the main enemy that the world is fighting, Nazi Germany--especially when she later proves to be fluent in German.
The 'meticulous research'--advertised in Bantam's blurbs--needs to be toned down and incorporated seamlessly into the narrative so that one barely notices it, because the history-mystery genre represents a minefield, in which one false step will cause the story to explode in the reader's face, which is what I felt happened about half-way through the book, when the narrative began to lose its credibility.
Such 'explosions' occur when the author trips over anachronisms that betray that she is not really at home in the British world, at least historically. One such has been noted by another reviewer, who observed that women (i.e., 'Aunt Edith') were not awarded Cambridge degrees until 1947. [SPOILER PLOT POINT] Nor did MI5, the service that dared not speak its name, until its agents started blabbing after the war in the wake of the mole-hunts, have director generals introducing themselves with words to the following effect: "Hullo, I'm the Director-General of MI5, and I want to recruit you!" Similarly (and this is a minor point), Britons were called British subjects (and not citizens) until 1949--perhaps an editorial slip.
A cross-Atlantic equivocation is evident in the title, because Maggie, as the author acknowledges, is actually one of Mr Churchill's typists. Secretaries for the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers are chosen after sitting for and passing the Civil Service Exam (as presumably the characters John and David did). A typist might be considered a secretary on this side of the Pond, but the word has a more exclusive meaning when used of Civil Servants. Another grenade: when Maggie and friend David turn up at Trinity College, Cambridge, they visit the office of 'Don Anthony Collier', also called 'Don Collier' several times. The term 'don' is a loose one for a senior member of the faculty at Oxford or Cambridge, and one does not use it as a form of address (as in Don Corleone, Mafia boss). One would address him as Professor Collier. The British editors at Bantam/Random House will likely take care of that (And the editors certainly need to take care of the spelling when Maggie informs the head of MI5 that she has learned German from a "Frauline" [sic] instead of Fräulein [An editorial error of which the author is likely unaware]).
Examples of intrusive research include scenes set at Sadler's Wells Ballet rehearsal rooms, in which the characters (one of them the likeable Audrey-Hepburnish Sarah) not only only explain in detail the history of the celebrated dance company (that was to become the Royal Ballet) but they also either drop famous names (e.g. Margot Fonteyn, Alicia Markova) or introduce famous characters (e.g. Frederic Ashton) in a manner that does not further the narrative. Another episode in which history seems to intrude on the mystery occurs at an after-ballet party at a Mayfair hotel in 1940. The Blitz [The word, which was on every Londoner's lips at the time, never appears in the book.] has been going on for some weeks. Maggie and her friends are drinking champagne, and instead of wondering, perhaps, when and where the Luftwaffe will be dropping its nightly load of bombs, out of the blue, they launch into a conversation about Edward and Mrs Simpson, a hot topic of 1936, which turns out to be a plot device to get a couple of characters upstairs to the Duchess' once-bedroom, but serves little purpose in moving the story along.
My favourite source on 'too much information' is Ernest Hemingway, who considered effective writing analogous to an iceberg, only the tip of which is visible: "I've seen the marlin mate and I know about that. So I leave that out. I've seen a school (or pod) of more than fifty sperm whales in that same stretch of water and once harpooned one nearly sixty feet in length and lost him. So I left that out. All the stories I know from the fishing village I leave out. But the knowledge is what makes the underwater part of the iceberg" (Paris Review, 18, Spring, 1958). In other words, extensive research will inform one's writing, but not overshadow it.
Or as my Mother used to say about painting: "You don't have to draw every brick upon the wall!"
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