Ipseity by Charles Pither Paperback Book 9798888245361

quot masterful evocative and originalquot Georgina Petty journalist and author of Top DogsquotA wonderful dance in a beautiful hall of mirrors taking the reader through the decades of glamour and war love and espionagequotampnbspSarah Ingham PhD author of The Military CovenantBriggens House Essex 1942 the other Bletchley Park the one you have never heard of Briggens House Essex 1940 An unassuming country house home of the Polish Army in exile houses in its basement a secret Special Operations Executive SOE unit where all the forged documents needed by the Allies are made Here identities are created for agents dropped into enemy territory Their lives depend on these documents looking authenticPeter and Elisabeth start an affair while working at Briggens House but lose touch soon after the war ends Why then forty years later does she leave him something in her willPeter resolves to find out discovering the extraordinary life she led after the war and the passionate affair that informed the choices she made and the person she became But Peter too is changed by the journey discovering new ways of seeing his pastUsing detailed research into the workings of this crucial but...