Lilac Girls: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday)

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The recovery and after effects that they endured and what Caroline did will bring tears to your eyes.

Summary of Lilac Girls: by Martha Hall Kelly | Includes… Summary of Lilac Girls: by Martha Hall Kelly | Includes…

Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, Lilac Girls weaves the lives of three astonishing women into a story of extraordinary moral power set against the harrowing backdrop of Europe in thrall to Nazi Germany. It has been 10 years since the war, but Caroline starts a charity to bring them to the United States for medical treatment. Across the ocean in Poland, Nazis have invaded Lublin, and 16-year-old Kasia’s world has been turned on its head.She joins the Resistance, volunteering for dangerous duty: shepherding downed Allied airmen across the Pyrenees to Spain.

Lilac Girls: A Novel - Kindle edition by Kelly, Martha Hall

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. In 1912 her parents purchased what is now known as the Bellamy-Ferriday House where the family would spend their summers, after spending their winters in New York City. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. The women are taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp where they are subject to all horrors of abuse and torture.Caroline is a real life heroine, for sure, there is no denying that, but I think she’d roll over in her grave at the way Martha Hall Kelly painted her. The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly is a novel, based on real people and events, that traces the lives of these three women, ending in a confrontation decades after the war.