Jennie Rooney was born in Liverpool in 1980. She studied history at the University of Cambridge and taught English in France before moving to London to work as an attorney. Her first novel, Inside the Whale, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.
Praise for Red Joan "A brilliant spy novel, with a deft, involving
plot... tense, beautifully pitched and very moving."
--Marie Claire "A page-turning saga of spies, conflicted loyalty,
and the grave consequences of good intentions."
--Publishers Weekly "Rooney has created a wonderful narrative
structure [that] elegantly presents a woman who was living a 'calm
and contented existence' when MI5 came knocking on her door."
--Kirkus "Rooney wonderfully evokes not only the political
consciousness of the time but also the exhilaration -- and the
terror -- of being young and risking everything...A drama of love,
idealism, and betrayal that is as moving as it is thrilling."
--Barnes & Noble Review "Rooney's re-creation of the politics of
the day is brilliant."
--The Times "Red Joan's strength lies in the complex personal
relationships that underpin the spying game... A powerfully written
exploration of the far-reaching consequences that even the
smallest-seeming actions can have."
--Literary Review "This is an infectious page-turner, as crafty and
nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller, but one that
doesn't forget where its heart is."
--The National "A sensitive spy thriller, finely detailed and
resolutley sensitive. This excellent period novel still carries
some considerable resonance in the age of Bradley Manning."
--Metro "Rooney is a novelist at home with life's ambiguities, her
plotting pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured."
--The Telegraph
Praise for Red Joan
-A brilliant spy novel, with a deft, involving plot... tense,
beautifully pitched and very moving.-
--Marie Claire
-Rooney's re-creation of the politics of the day is brilliant.-
--The Times
-Red Joan's strength lies in the complex personal relationships
that underpin the spying game... A powerfully written exploration
of the far-reaching consequences that even the smallest-seeming
actions can have.-
--Literary Review
-This is an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and
impassioned as any classic thriller, but one that doesn't forget
where its heart is.-
--The National
-A sensitive spy thriller, finely detailed and resolutley
sensitive. This excellent period novel still carries some
considerable resonance in the age of Bradley Manning.-
--Metro
-Rooney is a novelist at home with life's ambiguities, her plotting
pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured.-
--The Telegraph
Praise for Red Joan
"A brilliant spy novel, with a deft, involving plot... tense,
beautifully pitched and very moving."
--Marie Claire
"Rooney's re-creation of the politics of the day is brilliant."
--The Times
"Red Joan's strength lies in the complex personal relationships
that underpin the spying game... A powerfully written exploration
of the far-reaching consequences that even the smallest-seeming
actions can have."
--Literary Review
"This is an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and
impassioned as any classic thriller, but one that doesn't forget
where its heart is."
--The National
"A sensitive spy thriller, finely detailed and resolutley
sensitive. This excellent period novel still carries some
considerable resonance in the age of Bradley Manning."
--Metro
"Rooney is a novelist at home with life's ambiguities, her plotting
pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured."
--The Telegraph
"Rooney is a novelist at home with life's ambiguities, her plotting
pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured. As the needle
swings around her moral compass, her characters are contradictory,
our sympathies for them similarly so. Even though I kept
remembering the opening vignette, in which Joan is shown to be the
sort of granny who steals geranium cuttings from her neighbour's
garden, her realistic vulnerability won my affection."
--"Telegraph" (UK)
"An exciting and intelligent novel. . . . Rooney's re-creation of
the politics of the day is brilliant."
--"The Times"
"Rooney has already shown herself to be a marvelous portrait artist
of character in her previous two novels. . . . This is an
infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as
any classic thriller, but one that doesn't forget where its heart
is . . . and is a case study in how to handle complex characters
and motivations, keeping the reader on tenterhooks until the work's
final moments."
--"The National"
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