I’m rereading it to fully savor the intricacies of the book and I’m uncovering tidbits that I sort of missed on the first read. I felt a special connection of some sort to all of them.įor me, this one is a ReRead! It’s a long, complicated book that was excellent the first time I read it. There were three main female characters that were all endearing in their own way. This book was so specific in describing what happened at Bletchley, and in describing the code-breaking machines and how they looked, worked, and sounded, that I was constantly Googling facts about them along with images so I could really visualize in my mind what they were talking about.

I’m completely fascinated by Bletchley Park and just can’t learn enough about it.

The story is centered around Bletchley Park and the code-breaking that happened there during WWII. Historical fiction set in this time period is one of my favorite genres. So, The Rose Code is set in England (mostly) during the WWII years and also slightly after them in 1947. And it’s not a typo that I forgot to remove!īut when the word “loved” is appropriate, nothing else will suffice. Yep, I don’t usually say “loved” here in this section. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger–and their true enemy–closer… The Rose Code – What I Liked Loved A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter–the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.ġ947. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, a product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband.

Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets.

As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to the mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

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