Una espía muy real / A Very Real Spy

Overview

1932. Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie de Glen Garry y Rannoch — Georgie para los amigos— es la trigésimo cuarta en la línea de sucesión al trono de Inglaterra, una verdadera dama educada en selectos internados suizos, de familia noble y... en la ruina. A sus veintiún años, huyendo de un posible arreglo con un príncipe casadero, decide abandonar el castillo familiar en Escocia y trasladarse a Londres para forjar su destino. Pero no va a ser tan fácil. Como le dice siempre su cuñada: «un miembro de la familia real, por secundario que sea, tiene el deber de no decepcionar a los suyos». Georgie no dudará en honrar su linaje, aunque eso implique ocultar su identidad para procurarse el sustento, espiar al príncipe de Gales por orden de la reina o aclarar cómo ha acabado un muerto en su bañera.

1932. Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie of Glen Garry and Rannoch — Georgie to friends — is the thirty-fourth in the line of succession to the throne of England, a true lady educated in select Swiss boarding schools, from a noble family and... in ruin. At the age of twenty-one, fleeing from a possible arrangement with a marriageable prince, she decides to leave the family castle in Scotland and move to London to forge her destiny. But it's not going to be that easy. As her sister-in-law always tells him: "a member of the royal family, no matter how secondary, has the duty not to disappoint his own". Georgie will not hesitate to honor her lineage, even if it means hiding her identity to provide for her sustenance, spy on the Prince of Wales on the orders of the Queen or clarify how a dead man ended up in her bathtub.

Author Biography

Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels, including The Venice Sketchbook, nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Victory Garden; The Tuscan Child; and the World War II-based In Farleigh Field, winner of the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel.