The story has certainly peaked my interest in these code breakers and I think it has ignited a spark for further reading for that time in the world’s history ☺ I found the flow of the writing easy to read, the story was engaging (albeit long), characters had depth and kept me interested throughout the entire story. Quinn has been a very satisfying experience.

The Rose Code is the first book I have read by Kate Quinn (though I have had the paperback of The Huntress in my TBR pile for quite a while). But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger-and their true enemy-closer. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter-the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.ġ947. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts.

Imperious self-made Mab, product of East-End London poverty, works the legendary code-breaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

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