The Secrets of Latimer House by Jules WakeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Latimer House in the English countryside near Amersham is a secret base where allied troops interrogate captured German soldiers and sailors. Three very different women are recruited.
Evelyn, a society heiress whose father and brother are fighting for King and country, previously engaged to a German aristocrat her impeccable German and good looks help to make the prisoners more amenable.
Judith a German Jew who lost everything in Kristallnacht has been in England since 1938 but has never truly fit in. Her job will be to listen to private conversations between prisoners in their cells to see if they reveal any secrets away from their interrogators.
Betty is a local girl, she relished working in London away from her fussy mother and her sort-of fiancé Bert, but concern for her younger sister leads her to request a transfer to work at the Distribution Centre which has been set up at the local stately home.
Billeted together, doing top secret work, these three women form an unlikely friendship.
I thought that this would be more like The Rose Code which I read and really enjoyed earlier this year. However, this was less about the work and more about the romances, pleasant enough but not what I was really looking for. Also, it was all a bit predictable and don't even get me started on the 'coincidence' at the USAF dance!
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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