Restless: A Novel

Restless follows Eva Delectorskaya, a twenty-eight-year-old woman living in Paris in 1939. At her beloved younger brother's funeral, she encounters Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman with a secretive connection to her brother's death. Romer recruits Eva to work as a spy, sending her to Scotland for training. After a successful covert operation in Belgium, she is stationed in New York City, where she works to influence American public opinion toward entering World War II. Thirty years later, Eva has reinvented herself as Sally Gilmartin, a respectable widow living in a Cotswold village. Her daughter Ruth knows nothing of her true identity or her espionage past. As Sally's secrets threaten to surface, she must finally confront her dangerous history—and turn to Ruth for help. The novel weaves together Eva's wartime experiences with her present-day struggle to reconcile her hidden past with her current life.