Lilac girls

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Label

Lilac girls

Statement of responsibility

by Martha Hall Kelly

Creator

• Kelly, Martha Hall
• trueKelly, Martha Hall

Author

• Kelly, Martha Hall

Subject

• trueHistorical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Large type books
• Nazis -- Europe -- Fiction
• trueNazis, Grmany
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• trueParis, France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1944
• Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• trueRavensbruck (Concentration camp)
• Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) -- Fiction
• trueSecond chances
• trueSecrets
• trueTeenage girls
• trueWomen
• trueWomen physicians
• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueConcentration camps
• trueCouriers
• trueFreedom
• trueGermany -- History -- 1933-1945

Genre

• Large type books
• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort in France grows and she eventually comes to hear about the dire situation at the Ravensbruck all-female concentration camp. At the same time, Kasia's carefree youth is quickly slipping away, only to be replaced by a fervor for the Polish resistance movement. Through Ravensbruck - and the horrific atrocities taking place there told in part by an infamous German surgeon, Herta Oberheuser - the two women's lives will converge in unprecedented ways and a novel of redemption and hope emerges that is breathtaking in scope and depth"--

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print peer picks

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueRichly detailed

Character

• trueStrong female

Award

• LibraryReads Favorites, 2016.
• Library Journal Best Books, 2016

Assigning source

provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3611.E452

LC item number

L55 2016b

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print peer picks

Target audience

adult