The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer

A novel about British women who were parachuted into France during World War II to take part in the French resistance. This book is surprisingly boring given the subject matter. It is a well researched novel and I enjoyed reading about war training and the way war spy's were expected to behave. However, the main character, Marian although she goes by many other noms de guerre, is difficult to like and even harder to get interested in. She makes inexplicable decisions, particularly towards the end of the book, which makes it hard to be genuinely excited as to her welfare. The plot was much slower than I was expecting and the writing, whilst not dreadful, was very average. I was disappointed in this book which deals with a fascinating subject very blandly.