Women in the Castle, The Check Availability

Fiction

Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband's resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Published in 2017; 356 pages.

Includes 15 paperback copies and 1 book club guide prepared by WCPL.