RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte
Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK
and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. in December, 2012.
It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the
funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and
friends she notices a stranger. Lucas Romer is a patrician looking
Englishman with a secretive air and a persuasive manner. He also has a
mysterious connection to Kolia, Eva's murdered brother. Romer recruits
Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy and
work for his underground network. After a successful covert operation in
Belgium, she is sent to New York City, where she is involved in
manipulating the press in order to shift American public sentiment
toward getting involved in WWII.
Three decades on and Eva has buried her dangerous history. She is now
Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow, living in a picturesque
Cotswold village. No one, not even her daughter Ruth, knows her real
identity. But once a spy, always a spy. Sally has far too many secrets,
and she has no one to trust. Before it is too late, she must confront
the demons of her past. This time though she can't do it alone, she
needs Ruth's help.
