Mandy Robothamās highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is available for preorder now.
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places.Also published as The German Midwife.
āA powerful, haunting debutā Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
āIncredibly powerful, harrowing but ultimately uplifting. I couldnāt put this down.ā Katie Fforde, author of A Rose Petal Summer
āA fascinating story which had me forgetting itās fiction! So well written, I was left pondering if the events could actually be true. Enthralling!ā Kitty Neale, author of A Sisterās Sorrow
āAbsorbing and totally believable ā a wonderful WW2 novel.ā Molly Green, author of An Orphanās War
āI cannot give enough praise for A Woman of War. This is definitely #1 on my list of [historical fiction] books Iāve read in 2018.ā NetGalley Reviewer
āIf you are looking for a page turner, this is it. I read the book cover to cover in 48 hours. If I could give this book a 6/5 stars I would!ā NetGalley Reviewer
āThe writing was excellent and the characters realistic [...] an interesting and thoughtful page turner.ā NetGalley Reviewer
āVery compelling.ā NetGalley Reviewer
Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the FĆ¼hrer himself, Anke Hoff is assigned as midwife to one of Hitlerās inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die.
Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the Nazi regime, Anke is swept into a life unlike anything sheās ever known ā and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are just as trapped as she is. And soon, sheās falling for a man who will make her world more complicated still...
Before long, the couple is faced with an impossible choice ā and the consequences could be deadly. Can their forbidden love survive the horrors of war? And, more importantly, will they?
Mandy Robothamās highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is out now.
Mandy Robotham has been an aspiring author since the age of nine, but was waylaid by journalism and later enticed by birth. Sheās now a practicing midwife who writes about birth, death, love and everything else in between. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. This is her first novel.