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 become intertwined—from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good BreedingAmid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. But as Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s movement, she quickly discovers that the highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, and filled with dark secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history.
