The Secrets We Kept Nancy Mitford When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across

When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other

What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed

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While a massive and highly secretive operation is launched to recover clues from the wreckage

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The Secrets We Kept Nancy Mitford When Zachary Rawlins stumbles acrossTWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it. But in the rest of the world its fast becoming a sensation. In Washington DC, the CIA is planning to use the book to tip the Cold War in its favour. Their agents are not the usual spies, however. Two typists the