shh - It's top secret. The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a jolly good read.
1940 - Three women, Osla, Mab, and Beth end up at Bletchley Park in England. The best minds are working to break German military codes. Osla, debutante dating Prince Phillip, knows German and works to translate decoded enemy secrets. Mab, poor East Ender, works the codebreaking machines. Shy local girl, Beth, can solve puzzles like nobody's business. She's a brilliant cryptanalyst.
cover blurb - War, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.
1947 - Royal wedding time. (No, not Osla). The three friends turned enemies are reunited by an encrypted letter. They must meet and crack one last code together to unveil an old traitor from their past. Each petal they remove from the Rose Code brings danger...
Kate Quinn did her research and her characters are based on real life women. She keeps the pages turning and history alive. The whole story of the Enigma machines and what was done at Bletchley is always compelling. The Rose Code is a worthy piece of fiction for that World War II era.
