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    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
    Audiobook5 hours

    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks

    Written by Charlotte Bingham

    Narrated by Candida Gubbins

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    About this audiobook

    When aristocrat's daughter Charlotte Bingham was summoned to her father's office aged eighteen, 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 behavior.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOakhill Publishing
    Release dateJul 1, 2018
    ISBN9781787069718
    MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
    Author

    Charlotte Bingham

    Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of MI5 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carré's character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and the memoir MI5 and Me. In partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, she wrote a number of successful, plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairs and Take Three Girls. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com

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