The Women in the Castle: A Novel

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a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic."—People magazine"Mesmerizing .

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The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history’ s most tragic eras."—USA TodayThree women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined— an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding.

Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’ s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once- grand castle of her husband' s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war.