I really enjoyed this thrilling coming of age story about a young man, Phil, travelling around Europe as his grandmother's driver. At first he thinks he working for her after he's unable to go backpacking with his friends when he crashes the family car. As he gets to know his elusive grandmother Emma, Phil becomes embroiled in a complicated spy adventure over Paris, Berlin and Spain. I liked the way you hear Phil's story from the 1970s and Emma's perspective in the 1930s as she retells what she did during the war as a diplomats wife. There are many twists and turns as Emma takes Phil to all the countries that her husband was stationed as a diplomat and introduces him to the figures she knew there at the time. Phil realises he doesn't know his grandmother at all but is desperate to learn her story before it becomes too late. This is a well written spy adventure, I think it would make a great drama on the television.