The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah 007 floats in the waters

007 floats in the waters of Marseille

James Bond is no ordinary boy

Then he guesses the weight of the cake

An admiralty clerk's secret mission thirty years after

loss and obsession where everyone - including himself - has something to hide

The Sparsholt Affair Kia Abdullah 007 floats in the watersIn October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one