Intelligence

Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong. But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. On a field trip in northern France, she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war.
Can she and her clever soulmate Medora evade the Germans and capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives ? Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of our best-loved writers and entertainers.