Craig’s Reviews > A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean > Status Update

"The tumultuous married life of Donald and Melinda Maclean had started as it would continue, beset by difficulties and dangers, united but often not together, an enigma at times to the outside world that, like matryoshka dolls, kept hidden their deeper selves."

Starting to get interesting. War has broken out. Donald marries Mandy on the day the Embassy's evacuated from Paris.

He's recruited. A spy codenamed 'Orphan'.

In a school debate, Maclean 'deplored the distinction between public and private morality. Socialism would carry into a wider sphere the domestic virtues of service, liberty and justice'.

Maclean went to the same school as W.H. Auden and his father was friends with J.M. Barrie.

Made a start. His family is originally from the little island of Tiree. His grandfather moved south and his dad (also a Donald) was a self made success.