The women of the castle / Jessica Shattuck.
Publication details: London : Zaffre Publishing, 2017.Description: 356 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781785762697 (paperback)
- 9781785762581 (paperback)
- 9781785762710 (hardback)
- 1945-1955
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations - Fiction
- Castles - Germany - Bavaria - Fiction
- Widows - Fiction
- Germany - History - 1945-1955 - Fiction
- Germany History 1945-1955 Fiction
- Castles Germany Bavaria Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Castles -- Germany -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
- Castles -- Germany -- Bavaria -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Castles
- Interpersonal relations
- Widows
- Widows -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Germany -- Fiction
- Women in war -- Fiction
- Forgiveness -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction
- Bavaria (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- Bavaria (Germany) -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- Fiction
- Germany
- Germany -- Bavaria
- Bavaria (Germany) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SHA | Available | 068421 |
"In war, they made impossible choices. Now, can they live with them?" -- cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-356)
Bavaria, Germany. June, 1945. The Third Reich has crumbled. The Russians are coming. 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. All three women must grapple with the realities they now face, and the consequences of decisions each made in the darkest of times...