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Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set by the end of World Warfare II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played out host to all or any of German high world, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and finally redemptive book from the author of the New York Times noteworthy book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's beat, Marianne von Lingenfels comes back to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an imposing rock fortress now fallen into ruin following years of battle. The widow of your resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne programs to uphold the offer she designed to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow level of resistance widows. First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the boy of her dearest years as a child friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Collectively they make their way over the smoldering wreckage with their homeland to Berlin, where Martin's mother, the stunning and naive Benita, has fallen in to the hands of occupying Red Army troops. Then she locates Ania, another resister's partner, and her two kids, now refugees languishing in another of the many camps that house the hundreds of thousands displaced by the battle. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's level of resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them alongside one another. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past is becoming infinitely more complicated, filled up with secrets and dark passions that threaten to rip them apart. Eventually all three women must come to conditions with the options that have defined their lives before, during, and after the battle - each with her own unique share of challenges. Written with the damaging emotional power of The Nightingale, Sarah's Key, and The Light Between Oceans, Jessica Shattuck's evocative and absolutely enthralling book offers a fresh perspective on one of the very most tumultuous periods ever sold. Combining piercing sociable insight and brilliant historical atmosphere, The Ladies in the Castle is a remarkable yet nuanced family portrait of war and its own repercussions that explores what it means to make it through, love, and finally forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship.
