Ch: 85 plus prologue and epilogue
Pg: 624
Genre: Historical fiction
Rating: 4.5 stars
Publisher: William Morrow
The Rose Code is my first book by Kate Quinn and I have to say it won't be my
last. What drew me to The Rose Code was the fact that it was historical fiction
focusing on three fictional women who it turns out were based on real
women who worked at Bletchley Park. Helping to break code during WWII. A
part of history in fiction I've been fascinated with sense I read
The London Restoration and I want more. An though The Rose
Code is fiction it’s easy to imagine what the real life people who inspired the
novel went through. In the novel Olsa Kendall, Mab Churt and Beth
Finch not only have to keep secret about what they do at Bletchley park from their families and boyfriends. They also have to keep secret
what they work on in their huts from the others who work at Bletchley Park. I
I loved how the novel
slipped between the war years and what was going on at BP to the days leading
up to the royal wedding, though princess Elizabeth wedding was mentioned it
didn't take away from the story of Olsa, Mab and Beth it actually added to it.
Though out the course of the novel the three women grew and change despite the
past that shaped them. Mab from her simple upbringing, Beth from an overbearing
parent and Osla's status as a debutante, each wants to do what they can for the
war to prove not only to themselves but to those around them.
Women did pretty much everything it seems for the war effort and until recently
what they did at BP was a national secret. I hope readers discover The Rose
Code and the amazing fictional women in its pages inspired by even more amazing
real life women who helped Britain win the war.
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