The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** 'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' Rachel Rhys 'Hugely powerful Easily one of the best books you'll read this year.' Emma Christie THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the custody of the Metropolitan police. She can't speak their language, but she understands what their wary looks mean: she

is assigned to Shanghai

Bring down the world's best hope for order

And Nora's life isn't normal - her dad was murdered

Under his tutelage

his joy in fatherhood

Wisewood is far easier to enter than to leave

I would be unable to imagine

extraordinary

she was quickly launched into superstardom

With half the known galaxy on their tails

where he was lodging under a false name

And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace