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Elena Bowes

New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

In her latest book Ilium, Lea Carpenter proves that women can indeed write espionage novels despite what someone at the CIA’s Langley headquarters told her. She also challenges convention by making her protagonist female. Goodbye James Bond, hello??? Unusually, Lea never names her spy, something I didn’t notice until I’d finished the book. Either Lea...

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