⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars!
“Create a story of which you will be proud.”
Pam Jenoff has done it again, breaking my heart in pieces and writing another fantastic World War ll novel; this time about women spies! In the same vein as, “The Alice Network”, “The Lost Girls of Paris” centers around three women in the 1940s. Each are connected along the way and form a solid story that is captivating to read about!
I would say, it seems that the duel/multiple perspectives are popular in historical fiction and I think for the most part this format is great. I mean you sometimes you run into liking one character better than the other, but I still think it’s one of the better ways to tell a story. For this one you have...
Grace Healey, who is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg.
Eleanor is a leader of a ring of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie.
These three women weave together a story of such bravery and I felt each were given a lovely voice and platform to represent so many women who actually contributed to the war and laid down their lives.
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