Praise for A QUIET LIFE: 'e~A superb, sophisticated and radical book that refreshes the parts other spy novels cannot reach 'e¦ Meticulously researched and disarmingly told, A Quiet Life is historical fiction at its best, finding vast uncharted territories within a period we might have thought we knew.'e(tm) Chris Cleave, author of THE OTHER HAND and EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN 'e~A writer of game-changing skill and sensitivity. Few novelists can combine serious feminism with romance and adventure and make it work 'e¦ a literary page-turner'e(tm) THE TIMES 'e~Impressive and rewarding'e(tm) DAILY MAIL 'e~Evokes the period with brilliant precision and detail'e(tm) THE SUNDAY TIMES 'e~Impressive 'e¦ easily competing with the claims of such experienced novelists as Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd to the territory'e(tm) GUARDIAN 'e~A troubling, understated novel, almost hypnotic in the completeness with which it inhabits the mind of its impressionable central character'e(tm) SARAH WATERS Best Books of the Summer, GUARDIAN 'e~Brilliant'e(tm) JULIE MYERSON, Best Books of the Summer, GUARDIAN 'e~Elegant, slow-burning'e¦ leaving you with no choice but to read on'e(tm) METRO 'e~A tour de force. Walter has taken us inside a life in hiding, in a novel about love, about political ideals and about the entrapment both create'e(tm) Linda Grant 'e~A brilliant observer of period, place and upper-class mores'e(tm) DAILY MAIL 'e~Riveting'e(tm) GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'e~The novel really sings'e(tm) INDEPENDENT 'e~This thrilling tale of sacrifice, love, secrets, and identity is an absorbing debut novel from the feminist author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism 'e(tm) STYLIST 'e~As well as having a gift for cool, elegant phrasing, and a fine sensitivity to psychology 'e¦ Walter proves to be a hardworking and accomplished storyteller'e(tm) GUARDIAN 'e~This ambitious debut fuses espionage, wartime romance, and enquiry into female identity and power'e(tm) MAIL ON SUNDAY 'e~Genuinely one of the best books I'e(tm)ve ever read'e(tm) Chris Cleave.