Margaret
(Maggie) Hope was born in England, orphaned as an infant and raised by her aunt outside Boston. A brilliant mathematician, Maggie
delays her entry to graduate school to go to London, intending to close and
sell the house her grandmother willed to her. The housing market is down and
then World War II begins. Churchill has been elected Prime Minister and Maggie
has decided to stay. Although her math skills are formidable, women aren’t
given upper-level positions, and she becomes part of Churchill’s clerical
staff. This still affords her access to highly restricted information and
activities and soon her abilities are acknowledged. As she tries to adjust to
life in wartime London, budding relationships, insane working hours and
pressure, she becomes aware of a plot against the prime minister himself.
Mr.Churchill’s Secretary is a well written, fast paced novel that gives an
exciting picture of wartime England and the machinations of a government under
siege.
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