The women of the castle
Shattuck, Jessica2017
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Bavaria, Germany. June, 1945. The Third Reich has crumbled. The Russians are coming. Can Marianne von Lingenfels and the women in her care survive and build their ravaged world anew? Marianne - widow of a resistor to the Nazi regime - returns to the grand, crumbling castle where she once played host to all of German high society. She assembles a makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's movement, rescuing her dearest friend's widow, Benita, from sexual slavery to the Russian army, and Ania from a work camp for political prisoners. She is certain their shared past will bind them together. 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 has no place in these new, frightening and emotionally-charged days.
Main title:
The women of the castle / Jessica Shattuck.
Author:
Shattuck, Jessica, author
Imprint:
London : Zaffre, 2017.
Collation:
368 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781785762581 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3619.H357
Local class:
FT Pbk
Language:
English
BRN:
1893831