Our Woman in Moscow

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Cassandra Campbell

""A captivating Cold War page-turner."" — Real Simple

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion.

In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?

Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.

But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.

Didn’t want it to end

Loved this novel and never wanted it to be over. So good, more like this one please! 👍👍

Very enjoyable

I really enjoyed the story and characters. Very fresh take and well developed characters. Hope the author has more books on Audible!

Great listen

The story line kept you interested and the narrator was excellent. Highly recommend this book.

Good plot idea, not great rendition

The idea of fiction based on the “Cambridge Five” is always good. Sure, there is plenty of fiction based on these characters, but there can always be another twist or angle. The setup was decent (though I could have done without the cheesy sex scenes and the repetitive descriptions of Sasha’eyes or hair, Iris’s attraction to him, Fox’s broad shoulders, etc. - stuff out of cheap romance stories, or at least I would guess, because I never read those), but the way the end was tied together was not so well done. The narration was great for some characters, and for others a mixed bag. Some voices and accents were convincing enough, others a bit amateurish. I did want to get to how the end happens (the end is predictable, but the how was of interest), and that is where it was kind of weak. The book overall held my interest, so I’d say it was a good listen, but not a “must” by any means.

Confusing

I found this listen to be wholly confusing. The back in forth in time and the number of characters had me a little lost.