The Women in the Castle is a beautiful novel, focusing on three women and their experiences before, during, and after WWII.
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Marianne von Lingenfels, the German wife of a Nazi resister who was murdered after a foiled assassination attempt goes awry, made a promise to protect the wives and families of her husband’s conspirators. After their brave plan fails, she does everything in her power to find, protect, and ultimately keep this band of women and children alive during and after the war.
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Marianne has a strict sense of right and wrong, which clashes with the other women who live more in the gray. The choices made by these women, as they try to protect their respective children and then rebuild their lives once the war ends, force them to face their complicated and conflicting pasts.
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This novel changes perspectives, is told non-linearly, and is just wonderful. Every time I read a novel set during WWII, I cannot help but be blown away by the resilience of human beings.