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City of Women by David Gillham
is a gripping tale of life in Berlin at the height of
the Second World War.
In the very darkest
hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be
saved?
It is 1943 - the height
of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army,
Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband
fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all
intents and purposes, the model soldier's wife: she goes
to work every day, does as much with her rations as she
can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law.
But behind this façade is an entirely different
Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former Jewish lover,
who is now lost in the chaos of the war.
Sigrid's
tedious existence is turned upside-down when she finds
herself hiding a mother and her two young daughters:
could they be her lover's family? Now she must make
terrifying choices that could cost her
everything.
'Gillham's Berlin is a terrified city,
where nobody dare speak the truth and the smallest
decision can cost you your life. A terrifically tense
first novel' The Times
'In this moving and
masterful debut, David Gillham brings war-torn Berlin to
life and reveals the extraordinary mettle of women
tested to their limits and beyond. Powerful and
piercingly real. You won't soon forget these characters'
Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of
The Paris Wife
'David Gillham's
excellent new novel, City of Women, is built on
one of the most extraordinary and faithful recreations
of a time in history - Berlin in World War II - that
I've ever read' Alan Furst
David Gillham lives with
his family in western Massachusetts.
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