THE NURSERY BY ASIA MACKAY
Paperback published 5th September 2019 by Zaffre Books
Lex Tyler is trying to have it all.
But being a working mother is so much more difficult when you’re a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services.
Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the criminal underworld that connects intelligence operatives with all manner of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail, and agents die.
Lex’s own home life is not much easier. With a husband who rings her in the middle of a gunfight to complain she’s yet again forgotten to pick up his dry-cleaning, and a two-year-old daughter who has a newfound love of biting, surviving both the Terrible Twos and a traitor might just be too much for one exhausted mother to handle.
MY REVIEW
Asia Mackay is back. I’m so pleased that Asia Mackay is back with The Nursery. I read Killing It, that I recommend. Killing it had red and black cover, so I felt that the plain red cover to The Nursery was right for danger zone.
Lex Taylor had to juggle two roles being a mother and working as a secret agent.
Working and being a mother means you have to keep up with what your child is up to. Gigi, Lex’s daughter has bitten someone and I quite agreed with Lex that she wanted to apologise to the parents.
The first thing with reading The Nursery I noticed how Asia Mackay has excellent imagination, with an underground branch of the secret services under Platform Eight, with corridors, meeting room and phones ringing.
When Lex’s husband wants Lex to pick up his dry cleaning on her way home , this is the best part of Lex Tyler being a secret agent is that her husband has no idea of what her job exactly is about.
I totally recommend The Nursery.
About author Asia Mackay
Asia studied Anthropology at Durham University, after which she started a career in television. She presented and produced lifestyle programmes in Shanghai before moving back to London, where she worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as Project Manager on their round the world motorbike documentaries.
She started writing Killing It on maternity leave and undertook a Faber Academy course to help her finish it. Asia lives in London with her husband, four young children and two dogs. Killing It is her first novel and was the Runner Up in Richard and Judy’s Search for a Bestseller competition 2017.
You can find Asia Mackay on Twitter @abmackster
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