Lilac Girls
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the...
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Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Polan
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101883075 (1101883073)
ASIN: 1101883073
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
One of my favorite historical fiction novels this year. Moving account of WW2 Ravensbruck concentration camp for women.
This is a heartbreaking, disturbing, inspirational story. Some parts in the camp are almost too much to bare reading, especially since they're true. The parts with Caroline helped to balance some of that out. I was very emotional for the entire read for sure. The way the author tells from each o...
More like 3 ½ stars... The story in itself was heartbreaking and actually caused me nightmares, but the delivery was... impersonal? flat? I'm not quite sure what it was that put me off, but it all just dragged. I know the characters are based on real people, but they felt so unrealistic and unreacha...
From the start this novel pulled me in, as I was intrigued by the format of three different points of view of women living during Hitlers reign in the US, Poland and Germany. It shows how these women navigated the trying political times, one as a debutante, one as a surgical doctor, and another as a...
I had high hopes for this book but was very disappointed in the execution. It's told from the points of view of three women experiencing WWII from very different stations. Two of the women were dealing with the rise of Nazism and concentration camps in Eastern Europe while the other was a spoiled so...
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