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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)

Martha Hall Kelly

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Apr 11, 2020 Amanda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar-2020, girly-book-club

Wonderful! It took me a while to finally read this book, and I wish I hadn’t waited so long. It’s amazing! I highly recommend it to fellow WWII fans...however, it is not for the squeamish...there are images in here that are medically very disturbing. Such an amazing book based on true people and events. 💜

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May 20, 2018 Marie (UK) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-reading-challenge

This book is almost universally highly rated but despite that I found it to be much less than i expected. Read as a book of the month for a GR group, I certainly spent more time dissecting the events and characterisation of the book. At first I felt that the author had chosen 3 diverse characters to portray a period of history that is ultimately awful. I did feel she was taking us on a journey worth taking.

However, the characters were not fleshed out - Caroline came across as a spoilt, selfish, ...more

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Aug 29, 2020 Kim rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-again, nyc-area, new-england, historical-fiction, war, sisters, europe, 1000books, 5-star

The Lilac Girls is a well-research work of historical fiction whose timeline covers 20 years, from 1939-1959. The main characters are Caroline, a NYC-CT socialite; Kasia, a young Polish girl imprisoned with her mother and sister at the woman's prison, Ravensbrück; and Herta, a young, female German doctor who performs unspeakable operations on a group of women, who come to be known as the Rabbits. Although this is a difficult book to read, the story deserved to be heard. The courage and heartbrea ...more

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Nov 26, 2017 Shelly rated it really liked it

Great Read!

I did not know anything about the Ravensbruck concentration camp or the surgeries performed there. This book led me to do some further reading and research.

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