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London. Dec 1981. The IRA is on the invasion, a cold war is being waged, another war is just within the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his days being attentive. When he first joined up with the Institute, he likely to encounter gorgeous, high-risk espionage. Instead he gets the tape-recorded discussions of traditional Communists and ineffectual revolutionaries - until the day he is assigned a new circumstance: the ultra-secret PHOENIX, a suspected inside leak. The monotony of Stephen's routine is broken, but it's not PHOENIX who catches his imagination. It is the target's better half, Helen. Beset by isolation and loneliness, Stephen becomes dangerously obsessed with Helen, risking his job to keep his delicate connection to her and inadvertently setting up himself up for a street to redemption that will permanently change his life. With compassion and tenderness and moments of unexpected laughter, Francesca Kay charts the way in which thoughts, projection, and desire overwhelm the paucity of Stephen's life and id. As stunning as it is strong, The Long Room explores a brain under great pressure and the wilder desires of the heart.
