Book guide
The Women in the Castle
In a ruined Bavarian castle, three widows of resisters confront the aftermath of Nazi Germany.
GenresHistorical
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About The Women in the Castle
After World War II, Marianne von Lingenfels tries to honour a promise by finding and protecting the wives and children of men who resisted Hitler. The women she gathers at a crumbling castle are bound by grief, secrets, guilt, and the struggle to rebuild lives from moral wreckage.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- death
- genocide
- grief
- murder
- war
- rape recounted
- sexual enslavement recounted
