Helen Dunmore’s fiction has repeatedly returned to the theme of war and its aftermath, what she calls “the long shadows of war”. Her previous two novels, The Lie and ghost story The Greatcoat, were concerned with the efforts of the living to rebuild after world wars, and the insistence of the dead that they should not be forgotten. Exposure, her 14th novel, inhabits some of the same territory. While for many, the shadows of war stretch over London in 1960, Britain is engaged in a different conflict, one played out in the clandestine transfer of information and small, secret acts of violence, quickly hushed up.
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