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Tightrope by Simon Mawer

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By Simon Mawer

From the writer of the best-selling and Booker Prize—shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze

An historic mystery that brings again Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and strains her romantic and political exploits in post-World warfare II London, the place the chilly struggle is set to reshape outdated loyalties

As Allied forces shut in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary determine emerges from the wreckage that's Germany. it truly is Marian Sutro, whose lifestyles was once final identified to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. one in all a handful of surviving brokers of the exact Operations govt, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück focus camp, yet at what price? back to an England she slightly is aware and a postwar international she doesn't comprehend, Marian searches for whatever on which to floor the remainder of her lifestyles. friends and family encompass her, yet she is haunted via her reviews and by way of the guilt of realizing that her contribution to the struggle attempt helped bring about the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. whilst the mysterious significant Fawley, the fellow who hijacked her wartime project to Paris, emerges from the shadows to attract her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the chilly battle, she sees how to compensate for the previous and whilst to discover the identification that hasn't ever been hers.

A novel of divided loyalties and combined causes, Tightrope is the advanced and enigmatic tale of a lady whose look for own id and achievement leads her to surprising offerings.

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Therefore, the centrist groups, especially John Bell and his backers, had an incentive to run. If the election went to the House or the Senate, the border states, where Bell was most strongly backed, could broker an outcome. Something like this had happened in the last election which went to the House, that of 1824. But, with the two extremist candidates available, the centre collapsed and Lincoln won in the Electoral College. Veto Games and Credible Commitments I have spent time on the Riker–Weingast–Mackie story of the origins of the American Civil War, although it has nothing directly to do with the British crises that occupy the narrative chapters of this book.

While politics is one-dimensional, a centre party may indeed espouse the median voter's favourite policies. But it may still be severely squeezed by the plurality electoral system. This was what Lloyd George feared. His fears were well grounded. At least, from his position in the centre, he was able to try out leaps in all directions without any one of them seeming quite as dramatic as Peel's or Disraeli's leaps into the dark. What Is not in This Analytic Narrative and Why Not all cataclysms are heresthetic.

In the ensuing election, probably the most dramatic in twentieth-century Britain, the Liberals campaigned on the theme of ‘the Peers MAJORITY RULE AND ITS PROBLEMS 25 against the People’. They succeeded in reversing the adverse trend of by-election results. Although their lead over the Conservatives was sharply cut from the huge lead they had had in 1906, so that the Irish Party held the balance, the parties hostile to the Lords (Liberals, Irish, and Labour) won a comfortable majority. The Liberals then introduced a bill to replace the absolute veto power of the Lords by a ‘suspensory veto’: that is, a provision that the Lords could reject a Commons bill twice, but if it was presented for a third time it would become law without Lords' approval.

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