Genevieve Gaunt

Undercover in the Dordogne: Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner, reviewed

An American spy-for-hire uses her feminine wiles to infiltrate an eco-warrior group in rural France. But will she go off-piste and become indoctrinated?

Cave paintings at Lascaux in the Dordogne, the setting of Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake. [Alamy]
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    Rachel Kushner

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 416, £18

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