Transcription: A Novel

She was seventeen and her grief for herself was almost as great as her grief for her mother.

And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed.”

“If they’re telling Godfrey their secrets,” Perry said, “then they are not telling the Germans. Godfrey will be a conduit to divert their treachery into our own reservoir.” Metaphor really wasn’t his forte.

there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief.