Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler's inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die.
Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the regime she's now a part of, Anke is quickly swept into a life unlike anything she's ever known - and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are just as trapped as she is. Soon, she's falling for a man who will make her world more complicated still.
Before long, the coupleis faced with an impossible choice - for which the consequences could bedeadly. Can their forbidden love survive the horrors of war - and, moreimportantly, will they?
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[For a few moments, the hut was a quiet as it evercould be in the early hours, a near silence broken only by the sound of a fewfeminine snores]***
(Avon,7 December 2018, 352 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via NetGalley andvoluntarily reviewed)
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This is my first time reading the author. I'mtrying to branch out and read a bit more historical fiction so this bookintrigued me. I loved the concept of the novel. Imagine if you were Hitler'smidwife? I was not disappointed. This is a great read, a crazy, slightlytwisted ride from start to finish. Anke is a great character. From the startshe's thrust into a terrifying situation with personal, moral and ethicalconflict. She hates the Nazi's and I really felt her disgust of them andeverything they stand for. She aches for the family she's been taken from. Shewants to do the right thing but is in a situation where the ethically rightthing may be the completely wrong one. This is a book that humanises Nazi's toan extent. It would be easy to dismiss Hitler and the Nazi's as inhumanmonsters but it their humanity and complex nature that makes them and otherslike them so utterly terrifying. I'm glad I read this.
