Why we’re excited
London, 1938. Richard Hadley meets a woman called Miss Lambert after a music hall show, and the two bond over singing. He trails her to a closed conference at a Devon country house, where she warns him off. Something is going on, and Richard is the last to understand it.
Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in 2017 and wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. A pre-war spy caper is new ground for him, and his narrators are usually missing something they should see. His regular readers and fans of old-fashioned spy fiction both have reason for curiosity.
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What to know about Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger
We have reviewed 2 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books, with an average score of 4.0 out of 5. The one we rated highest is Never Let Me Go (4★).
From the publisher
From one of the great storytellers of our time, an exquisite spy novel—a disarming and memorable caper, in which not everything is quite as it seems.
At first, I took you for a charming jewel thief.
London, 1938. After attending a music hall matinee, Richard Hadley has an unexpected encounter with the mysterious Miss Lambert. Over a shared love of singing a strange connection is forged.
But when he follows her to a secretive conference at Marlborough House in Devon, Miss Lambert warns him that she’s on the brink of an important breakthrough and that he, understanding nothing, must not get in her way.
As an old school friend, a Tory ex-Minister, and an assortment of strangers on a train cross his path, it could be that Richard finds himself at the heart of something momentous, if only he can piece together what is going on.
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We haven’t read Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
