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MI5 and Me
- A Coronet Among the Spooks
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
When aristocrat's daughter Charlotte Bingham was summoned to her father's office aged 18, she never expected to discover that he was a spy. Even more ominous was his decision that she should work for MI5.
Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, Lottie wishes for release from the torment of typing. But as fellow secretary Annabella illuminates the mysteries of MI5, and Lottie's home fills with actors doubling as spies, Lottie feels well and truly spooked.
This hilarious memoir is a window into 1950s Britain, where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and where Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour.
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- Wallace W. Shackleton
- 29-08-18
The Bunty goes to MI5
Not great in the story line, too "jolly hockeysticks" for my taste. The story lines are hardly credible.
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- Podenco Fan
- 03-10-19
WHAT A WONDERFUL BOOK AND SO WELL READ
This is quite simply a treasure. So funny, so charming so beautifully written and so evocatively read by the talented Candida Gubbins who made it all come to life in the most delightful way. Also recommend the equally spellbinding, hilarious and fascinating sequel "Spies and Stars, MI5, Showbusiness and Me" which is another slice of heaven, so good I find myself often dipping into for a chapter or two to cheer me up just before bed. Even as a re-read these two books are pure gold. 100 stars!
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- Louise Culmer
- 25-09-21
Hilarious story with a brilliant narrator
When Charlotte Bingham was eighteen, she was surprised to be informed that her father was a spy and worked for MI5. He decided that she should work for them too, and got her an interview for a secretarial job. To her surprise, she got the job, and this begins an extraordinary period in her life. The story of her MI5 career is very very funny, with the most extraordinary things happening. Candida Gubbins is the perfect reader for this hilarious book, a marvellous narrator and all her voices for the characters sound exactly right. I can listen to this one again and again.
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