SOURCE: Gee, Maggie. “A Joker's Guide to Table Tennis.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5083 (1 September 2000): 34.

In the following review, Gee asserts that Celia's Secret is a factual account of a hoax carried out between two friends.

This curious little book is a coda to Michael Frayn's successful play Copenhagen, in which his current co-author David Burke played the Danish atomic physicist Niels Bohr. The play explored the mystery of the German physicist Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in 1941, at a time when the two men's countries were at war. We know the visit marked the end of the friendship between Bohr and Heisenberg, but we do not know why, though Heisenberg's role in the Nazi attempt to make an atom bomb was a crucial factor. Copenhagen shows both the difficulties in filling lacunae in history, and the force of our compulsion to do so.

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