![]() ![]() But as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her role in the Nazi regime, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled world view is infinitely more complicated, and filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear the group apart. She is certain their shared past will bind them together. ![]() Marianne assembles a makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, rescuing her dearest friend’s widow, Benita, from sex slavery to the Russian army, and Ania from a work camp for political prisoners. Now in ruins, the castle is the place where Marianne, widow of one of the resisters murdered in the failed Jplot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. ![]() This memorable book, already a New York Times bestseller, centres on the once great castle owned by Marianne von Lingenfels’ ancestors, where glittering pre-war parties were held and subversive responses to the Führer discussed. Noted American writer Jessica Shattuck’s latest work, a heart-wrenching but hopeful novel of secrets and survival, traces three women’s stories across the years of the Third Reich. ![]()
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