Whoever I Am [Hardcover]

Eileen Dewhurst (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday (January 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038518185X
• ISBN-13: 978-0600872894
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,477,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Safe Place For Whom?, June 5, 2006

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Whoever I Am (Hardcover)

Eileen Dewhurt's more recent novels include 'Death of A Stranger,' 'Closing Stages' (May 2001), 'No Love Lost' (2002) and 'The House That Jack Built' (2004) which I have already reviewed. So, it was with pleasure to find this early novel about an unusual place in Britain. We are almost never the person strangers think we are. Sometimes, not even the person your closest friends think you are.

This nursing home in England is not what it appears. Some of the patients are actors pretending to be dotty old people. Christine is an actress who discovers it's really a safe house for British intelligence and her greatest role so far is at present to look like an old decrepit woman and penetrate the organization of these liars. Her job is to uncover the mole responsible for the murder of two agents. Soon, it's apparent that the man she trusted could be the foreign agent; if that is truthful fact, then her life is at stake.

Who is that woman? She's terrible -- to think they would fill in with amateurs. It's bad business. Whoever I am shows how some actors fell into the parts laid out for them and lose themselves in the process. At a college graduation at which he was the speaker, Greg M. looked up from signing autographs to a pretty young woman and said, "Hello, You." This same welcome was said to me recently by a young local bus driver; but in my case, he just had forgotten my name -- if he ever knew it. 'Julian, I want to turn cartwheels. I must be mad." "Whoever you are." "Whoever I am." Thus ends a mystery thriller.

It was fast-paced and interesting for a British-based thriller. She's come a long way since it was written.