![]() ![]() Tony breaks up with Serena and she never sees him again. ![]() ![]() The summer romance ends when Tony angrily accuses Serena of leaving her blouse behind for his wife to find, even though she remembers him telling her to leave the blouse for the housekeeper. He schedules her an interview with the organization for the following September and she accepts because she does not know what else to do with her life. He teaches her about politics which, as Serena discovers, is actually him grooming her for a position in the British intelligence organization, MI5. To hide from his wife, they spend weekends in his country cottage. Serena and Tony begin a long, secret affair. Her then-boyfriend introduces her to his tutor, an older historian named Tony Canning. However, she struggles at university because she encounters people smarter than her for the first time and literature distracts her, a distraction which leads to a regular literary column in a friend’s student magazine. ![]() She bows to her mother’s request and is one of the only women of her generation to study the subject at Cambridge. In the 1960s, her mother encourages her to study mathematics at Cambridge University even though Serena (a keen reader) would rather study literature. Serena Frome grows up in a small, uninteresting English city. ![]()
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