The Tightening String
Ann Bridge
Suspense
250 pages
copyright: 1962
An exciting, suspenceful novel and tale of escape set in Hungary early in World
War II, The Tightening String is the story of a woman's courage and deeply
personal convictions as, far from home, she watches frontier after frontier
fall to the enemy.
The herione is Mrs. Eynsham, wife of the British counsellor in Budapest, a
woman of character adn charm, whose committment in the war is great. While the
pressures mount on all sides, she witnesses the supreme testing of her loved
ones--her son in battle, her husband during an illness brought on by a serious
heart attack, adn her daughter caught up in a poignant love affair overshadowed
by diaster.
As the last moment for escape approaches, there are painful farewells, then
flight to freedom by the last route open, with unexpected tragedy waiting at
the frontier.
Building to its dreamatic conclusion amid smober overtones, The Tightening
String is more than a novel of wartime intrigue. Through Mrs. Eynsham, the
reader relives the trails of war with its fears and moments of high drama. It
is an inspiring novel, filled with beauty of place descriptions, and the
accuracy about haut-monde detail that are the hallmark of Ann Bridge's suspnse
narratives.
Of The Tightening String and its relation to real life, Ann Bridge says, "There
was a real British Legation in Budapest in 1940-1941, full of real people, of
whom I was one--the Minister's wifel; in the novel they have been exchanged for
purely invented characters. But the facts given--the long delay in parcels from
England reaching the prisoners-of-war in Germany, and the extrordinary
generoisty of the Hungarians in helping to meet their needs, are purely a piece
of modern history."
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