![]() ![]() In May 1945 Marianne is living at her late husband’s family estate, Burg Lingenfels. Ania’s Polish husband was also involved in the plot, and appears once at the beginning of the novel. As we know, the plot failed, and Marianne and Benita’s husbands are executed. ![]() Shattuck quietly inserts the husbands into the notorious 20 th July plot to assassinate Hitler, led by Claus von Stauffenberg. Marianne and Benita are widows of resistors and met through their husbands just before the War. What appealed to me about this book were the fact that it is mostly set after the War, exploring its consequences, and that the story centres around the experiences of three German women who are thrown together by circumstance, and who have all had very different experiences of the War years. I’ve read history books, personal accounts, and novels such as Alone in Berlin and City of Women so, I was happy to accept a review copy of The Women of the Castle by Jessica Shattuck when it was offered to me (something I don’t do very often!). I’ve always been interested in the literature of the Second World War, ever since a course on the Literatures of Genocide at university. ![]()
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