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Midnight in Vienna, with Jane Thynne

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Show Notes

Antonia Senior talks to acclaimed novelist Jane Thynne about her new book Midnight in Vienna. Set in London and Vienna in 1938 it follows a young unemployed English tutor called Stella Fry and a disgraced MI5 watcher called Harry Fox, as they unite to investigate the murder of a celebrated detective novelist.

We talk Nazis, the parallels between the 1930s and the present day, and, of course spies.

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