Oh, Sugar

When disgraced journalist Dolly Fontaine discovers that her film star mother, Gloria, was a spy recruited by MI6 in the seventies to ensnare a ruthless Lusenkan dictator, past and present collide with dangerous consequences.

When disgraced journalist Dolly Fontaine discovers that her mother, the seventies film star Gloria Fontaine, was a spy recruited by the British Intelligence Services to ensnare a ruthless Lusenkan dictator, past and present collide with dangerous consequences. In the wake of a political scandal that shatters her high-flying career, journalist Dolly Fontaine seeks refuge at her childhood home, Genevrier, where her mysterious mother, the celebrated seventies film star, Gloria Fontaine, lived for decades. When Dolly discovers a dusty box of cassette tapes in the attic revealing Gloria''s most compelling, real-life role - a daring undercover mission as a British spy to her birth country of Lusenka - so begins a perilous journey involving diamonds, Cold War intrigue, and a merciless dictator. Can Gloria''s voice recordings, and an enigmatic, retired spook once known as Sunstar, help Dolly uncover the truth before a deadly adversary silences her forever? Oh, Sugar spans two generations, taking the reader from 21st-century Cornwall to a fictional 1970s dictatorship.