Martha Hall Kelly
Hardcover | Pages: 487 pages Rating: 4.29 | 187764 Users | 17106 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Lilac Girls |
| ISBN: | 1101883073 (ISBN13: 9781101883075) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Lilac Girls #1 |
| Characters: | Caroline Ferriday, Kasia Kuzmerick, Herta Oberheuser, Paul Rodierre |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) Paris(France) Germany …more Lublin(Poland) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction & for Debut Goodreads Author (2016) |
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Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this debut novel reveals a story of love, redemption, and secrets that were hidden for decades.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.
An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.
For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power.
The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.
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| Title | : | Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls #1) |
| Author | : | Martha Hall Kelly |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 487 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2016 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Holocaust. Audiobook |
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This story is about three different women, two of whom were real-life characters according to the author's notes, the third (a prisoner at the all female prison camp Ravensbrück). Caroline Ferriday is the first narrator, Kasia (a young Polish girl) and finally the notorious Herta Oberheuser (don't read up on her experiments at meal time). The setting is mainly during the years of WWII, but the later third or so take place some years afterward.Typically such a subject matter would have me grippedThis is a fictional story of the real-life women who were subjected to medical experiments at Hitler's Ravensbrüch concentration camp, the only one exclusively for women. The story is told from three narratives: Caroline Ferriday, a New York debutant and socialite who worked tirelessly on behalf of French orphans before and at the war's outbreak; Kasia Kuzmerick, a young Polish woman who was subjected to these experiments at Ravensbrüch; and Herta Oberheuser, one of the camp doctors (the only
I'm so very clearly in the minority here, and I don't really feel like drawing the ire of the thousands of people who seem to have enjoyed this book so just let me say that the story was fine but I thought the writing was weak. The characters weren't developed and Kelly's use of the three-intertwined-narratives technique (Side note: I am sick to death of that technique) struck me as clumsy and ineffective.
Have you ever heard of the Rabbit Girls? I would imagine most reading this review, have not. Neither had I. Unfortunately they are forgotten women of WWII. This storyline is based on a true story. Two of the three women we follow beginning in the year 1939 are real people, and their names have not been changed. The other is loosely based on a woman who was an actual Rabbit Girl. All three womens lives intersect. Caroline, an American actress with ancestral ties to France, who works in the
Follow me on Book Nation by Jen for all my reviews and recommendations.https://booknationbyjen.wordpress.comIf you missed the release of Lilac Girls, now is the time to buy the paperback. It is historical fiction based on true and harrowing events during World War II. For me, the Holocaust has always been mostly about how the Jews were prosecuted; a devastating time in our history across the world. But of course the Jewish people were not the only ones who were affected. Author Martha Hall Kelly
After all the books I've read about the horrors surronding WWII it still amazes me how awful humans can be to each other. Lilac Girls is one of those novels that brings to light a little known atrocity... the experimentation on women in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. The writing is so raw that at times I wasn't sure I'd be able to get through it. It saddens me so much to think that any of the victims of these atrocities would carry guilt feeling any it was their fault. I appreciate the
The best thing about this story is that it's based on real people and real events. From the main characters to the individual Ravensbruck doctors and prison guards to the inmates of the concentration camp, Hall Kelly has done her research and then some. I did my own research after reading this, including visiting Hall Kelly's website, and became engrossed in the backstory, especially what happened to some of the protagonists in the story. Just seeing some of these people's pictures gave me
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