An English-language release of an internationally best-selling novel finds poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forging a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rising to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service. A first novel. Reprint Packed with engaging characters, flawlessly researched, and breathlessly paced (Booklist, starred review)--the internationally bestselling novel about a seamstress who becomes an undercover spy for the British Secret Service during World War II.
