If you are looking for a ‘story’ then this isn’t for you. There are so many names, dates, places and facts it was, at times, very difficult to keep up. The narrative switches from pre-war, to war-time to post-war to present day so often I think I was about quarter of the way into the book before getting to grips with the flow of it.
I feel like I didn’t really know any of the characters very well as there was so much flipping between the first and third person.
If you are interested in France during the war, the French resistance, espionage etc then this may be for you but I personally didn’t really get into it. I only really enjoyed reading the story of their escape and road to finding freedom and all that happened along the way. That was probably only 1/3 of the book.
It’s the astonishing story of survival, guile, wit and intelligence and the incredible courage, resilience and comradeship of the nine woman whose tale is told in this excellent book.
I feel like I didn’t really know any of the characters very well as there was so much flipping between the first and third person.
If you are interested in France during the war, the French resistance, espionage etc then this may be for you but I personally didn’t really get into it. I only really enjoyed reading the story of their escape and road to finding freedom and all that happened along the way. That was probably only 1/3 of the book.
It’s the astonishing story of survival, guile, wit and intelligence and the incredible courage, resilience and comradeship of the nine woman whose tale is told in this excellent book.