Celia's Secret

Frayn, Michael; Burke, David

ISBN 10: 0571205305 / ISBN 13: 9780571205301

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2000

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Signed by both authors on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Celia's Secret
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571205305
• ISBN 13: 9780571205301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

One day during the run of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart. They turn out to mark the start of a long and winding trail.
The subject of Copenhagen is the strange visit that the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, made to his former Danish colleague Niels Bohr in 1941. The two old friends now found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg could not explain to Bohr that he was running the Nazi's secret atomic programme. His intentions have intrigued and baffled historians, and the hitherto unpublished German documents which Celia Rhys-Evans now began to send Michael Frayn cast a new light on certain aspects of the story.

About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.