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by Kelly Rimmer
“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that
“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that employed former Nazis after WWII. Berlin, Germany, 1930 —When the Nazis rise to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and her academic husband benefit from the military ambitions of Germany’s newly elected chancellor when Jürgen is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Although they fiercely oppose Hitler’s radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable, it soon becomes clear that if Jürgen does not accept the job, their income will be taken away. Then their children. And then their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950 —Twenty years later, Jürgen is one of many German scientists pardoned and granted a position in America’s space program. For Sofie, this is a chance to leave the horrors of her past behind. But when rumors about the Rhodes family’s affiliation with the Nazi party spread among her new American neighbors, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results tears apart a family and leaves the community wondering—is it an act of vengeance or justice? “ An unforgettable novel that explores important questions highly relevant to the world today.” — Christine Wells, author of Sisters of the Resistance
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June 28th 2022
by Graydon House
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(ISBN13: 9781525899904 )
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Apr 18, 2022
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The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer was heart wrenching and uplifting at the same time. It was one of the best historical fiction novels I have read so far this year. The characters were vividly portrayed and so real that they found a way to creep into my heart and under my skin. Kelly Rimmer’s research on this book was extensive and thorough. It was so well written that the plot drew me in right from the beginning and held my attention until the very satisfying and well done ending. There were thre
The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer was heart wrenching and uplifting at the same time. It was one of the best historical fiction novels I have read so far this year. The characters were vividly portrayed and so real that they found a way to creep into my heart and under my skin. Kelly Rimmer’s research on this book was extensive and thorough. It was so well written that the plot drew me in right from the beginning and held my attention until the very satisfying and well done ending. There were three distinct settings…Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, a small farm in Oakden, Oklahoma during The Great Depression and the devastating dust storms and in Huntsville, Alabama in the 1950’s. The story was told through alternating points of view from the two women protagonists and switched between the latter time periods and the present one in 1950. I have read several of Kelly Rimmer’s books and after reading each one I wonder how she will write one that is better the the last. Somehow she always manages to do it. In 1930, in Berlin, Germany, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and her husband Jurgen are happily married and very much in love but hardly making ends meet. Jurgen always had a passion for building rockets and envisioned that he would help land one on the moon someday. When the Nazi party came into power in Germany, Jurgen’s superior knowledge and talent in building rockets and understanding their unique mechanisms came to the Nazis’ attention. Jurgen was offered a high-level position in the rocket program. Although, Jurgen and Sofie vehemently opposed everything that the Nazis stood for, Jurgen was forced to accept the position. If he turned it down he and his family would surely experience dire and unimaginable consequences. During The Great Depression, in a little town called Oakden, Lizzie and her parents and her older brother Henry lived on a farm. The farm was loosing money but the family was desperately trying to keep it in their possession. Then great dust storms appeared and seeped into every nook and cranny it could find. The streams and ponds dried up. One particularly bad dust storm caused tragedy to find its way onto Lizzie’s family farm. Lizzie and Henry were forced to leave the farm and reinvent themselves in El Paso, Texas. In 1950, in Huntsville, Alabama, Jurgen was one of several German scientists that were pardoned for their involvement in the war and with the Nazis and was offered a high level positions in the American space program stationed right in Huntsville. Jurgen was brought over by the United States government after the war. His record was wiped clean by the government. He arrived in Huntsville a few years before Sofie could join him. When Sofie finally arrived with two of their four children, Jurgen was exuberant. He was finally a happy man being reunited with his family. The house Jurgen had purchased was on a street with other German families. Not everyone in Huntsville welcomed the German families. There were still lingering bad feelings that surrounded the horrific acts of Hitler and the Nazis. Then rumors started spreading about the Rhodes family’s involvement in the Nazi party during the war. Even their German neighbors turned their backs on Sofie and Jurgen. The American wives were just as vicious if not more so with their remarks and they wanted nothing to do with the newly arrived German wives but Sofie even more so. Sofie was outraged and disappointed to noice all the whites only signs on restaurants and other buildings in the town when she first arrived. She had left the anti-Semitic sentiment back in Germany. Now she was faced with prejudice all over again. The worst was yet to come. Someone threatened the Rhodes family with an act of violence. Could Sofie and Jurgen and their children find the safe and happy life they so desired in America? The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer was poignant, gripping, emotional and riveting. I must admit that cried openly at parts and smiled at other parts. It was the kind of story that made me want to keep reading. The German Wife was about love, family, choosing, recognizing good and evil, right and wrong and having faith in others. It was an unforgettable historical fiction novel that explored prejudice and relevant questions that pertained to choices people chose to make and follow. The German Wife took a close look at what it was like for the women and their husbands living under the tyranny of the Nazis. I really enjoyed The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer and recommend it very highly. Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House for allowing me to read this digital version of the advanced reader’s copy of The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Publication is set for June 28, 2022.
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Louise Fisher
Wonderful review Marilyn.
28. Mai, 15:12 Uhr
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Thanks so much, Louise!
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This is another brilliant story from a master story teller, I fell into this one from page one and I was pulled into a story that is heartbreaking, moving and poignant, Kelly Rimmer has researched so well into the past and created a story that will make the reader really feel the emotions that were so strong with so many people during Hitler’s reign in Germany from the 1930’s, a must read for any reader who loves a visit back in time. Berlin 1934 Sofi is married to rocket scientist Jürgen they ar
This is another brilliant story from a master story teller, I fell into this one from page one and I was pulled into a story that is heartbreaking, moving and poignant, Kelly Rimmer has researched so well into the past and created a story that will make the reader really feel the emotions that were so strong with so many people during Hitler’s reign in Germany from the 1930’s, a must read for any reader who loves a visit back in time. Berlin 1934 Sofi is married to rocket scientist Jürgen they are comfortable and living in a big house, things are changing in Germany and Sofi and Jürgen are not keen on what is happening they have different views to many of their friends and Jürgen is now made to work on Hitler’s rocket program and there will be decisions to be made that neither will be happy with. Texas 1934 Lizzie is living on the family farm with her parents and older brother Henry, times are very hard at the moment with the depression and the terrible drought they are going through, Lizzie only ever wants to be a farmer that is her one goal in life but life turns the tables on her and she finds herself living in the city. She marries Calvin and he works with the space program and becomes a housewife but is she happy? Huntsville Alabama 1949, the war is over and Jürgen is taken from his homeland and bought to America along with other German scientists to help America start their space program here he has his past in Germany wiped and although he is missing Sofi and the children he does again what is needed to live a life. Finally he can bring his beloved Sofi and their children to be with him but life again doesn’t run smoothly, it seems that the Germans are not always welcome here in Huntsville. This is a fabulously written story it really will pull at your heartstrings and have you thinking about how you would have coped during these terrible times, I really felt for Sofi and Jürgen and what they went through and I wonder what more could they have done and I know that there will always be questions about the atrocities that happened, but my heart went out to them. Lizzie for me was a very different character a little harder for me to like but she really did have a hard time as well, will what happens in Huntsville change people’s thinking and in what way. I loved this story so much and highly recommend it, there are lots of issues raised in this book and I am sure that book clubs will have many a late night talking about it, thank you for another keeper. My thanks to Hachette AU for my copy to read and review
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The German Wife is the eleventh novel by best-selling Australian author, Kelly Rimmer. In 1950, after five years apart, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and two of her three surviving children have departed Berlin to be reunited with her husband, rocket scientist Jurgen Rhodes, in Huntsville, Alabama. There’s a mixed welcome: her husband is ecstatic about their arrival, but she notices that not all the German wives are friendly, and wonders what they know about Jurgen’s role during the war. And while the
The German Wife is the eleventh novel by best-selling Australian author, Kelly Rimmer. In 1950, after five years apart, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes and two of her three surviving children have departed Berlin to be reunited with her husband, rocket scientist Jurgen Rhodes, in Huntsville, Alabama. There’s a mixed welcome: her husband is ecstatic about their arrival, but she notices that not all the German wives are friendly, and wonders what they know about Jurgen’s role during the war. And while the manager of the program for which Jurgen works encourages the American wives to make their German counterparts welcome, many can’t reconcile themselves to being friendly with a race of people who may have been responsible for the atrocities they have all heard about. One of those American wives is Lizzie Miller, from a hardscrabble farming family which lost everything in a debt spiral during the prolonged drought of the 1930s. Her brother, Henry has seen first-hand what the Nazis did, resulting in mental distress termed combat fatigue. To the dismay of the hosts of the welcome party, Lizzie takes a stand and harsh words fly between her and Sofie. Lizzie’s husband, Calvin is the General Manager of the fledgling space program, dubbed Operation Paperclip, and he has been assured that none of his talented German scientists were Party members. He’s not entirely convinced, but the chance to have these brilliant men working for America overrides his personal misgivings. The depth of the two wives’ animosity, and the impetus for the harassment that follows, with potentially tragic consequences, is a feeling can be better understood from the events in their lives that led up to their current situation. In this dual-timeline narrative, Rimmer even-handedly presents events from two very diverse perspectives. Parallels between Sofie’s and Lizzie’s lives, while not necessarily obvious to them, become more apparent as the story progresses. As the details of Sofie and Jurgen’s lives in the build up to the war are revealed, Rimmer powerfully demonstrates just how effective fear for the safety of loved ones can be in forcing people to set aside their core values and act out of character. Subject to persecution both subtle and overt, their children brainwashed, indoctrinated, even parents in prestigious positions are powerless to prevent it happening. Friendship with Jews gradually becomes something that will attract punishment, being made an example of. “We had so long been afraid of the consequences of dissent that even as the nation descended into madness, any moral call to rise up against the chaos went unheeded.” Eventually, Jurgen faces an unenviable dilemma “I’m trapped on this path where my work is building to something heinous.” Their family under threat, they conclude: “The cost of anything but perfect compliance would simply be too high.” Once they become aware of the atrocities to which they are party, do Sofie and Jurgen become two of those good people who allow evil to triumph by doing nothing? This story shows that perhaps it’s not always so simple. Should loyalty to country outweigh loyalty to family and friends? Ultimately, Sofie hopes the American community might accept that: “we were more than just the mistakes of our past.” Rimmer’s extensive research is apparent on every page, and she also demonstrates that misinformation, fake news, is really nothing new. Readers familiar with Rimmer’s work know to expect moving and thought-provoking, but this time she adds in controversial: this one is likely to prompt plenty of lively book-club discussion. Outstanding historical fiction. This unbiased review is from a copy provided by Hachette Australia.
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* https://mrsbbookreviews.wordpress.com 4.5 stars Contemporary and historical fiction author Kelly Rimmer returns with another magnificent historical fiction composition inspired by real events. A story of impossible choices, virtue, morality, consideration and reverence, The German Wife is an enriching slice of fiction. Crossing two different timeframes, The German Wife follows Sofie Rhodes in 1934 as she forges ahead in her difficult life as the wife of a scientist. When her husband is called upon
* https://mrsbbookreviews.wordpress.com 4.5 stars Contemporary and historical fiction author Kelly Rimmer returns with another magnificent historical fiction composition inspired by real events. A story of impossible choices, virtue, morality, consideration and reverence, The German Wife is an enriching slice of fiction. Crossing two different timeframes, The German Wife follows Sofie Rhodes in 1934 as she forges ahead in her difficult life as the wife of a scientist. When her husband is called upon to take part in a revolutionary rocket program run by the Nazi party this family’s welfare improves. However, their elation is short lived when they realise the true motives of the Nazi party who are in charge of Jurgen’s work program. Moving forward in time to the US in 1950, Sofie’s husband Jurgen is transported to the US from Germany via a pardon, to help America’s tenderfoot space program. But Sofie encounters many problems assimilating into her new life in the US. The Rhodes family are placed under intense scrutiny and attack when their past actions are exposed. What is fair and just in this difficult set of circumstances? Kelly Rimmer has transfixed me once again with The German Wife, a fascinating and revealing slice of historical fiction. Drawing on her innate knowledge and written skills in the area of World War II, Rimmer has unearthed an incredible hidden history about a key aspect of the Second World War. Startling, factual, moving and meditative, The German Wife was another winning piece in my eyes from a trusted author. The German Wife is a historical fiction parcel that is split carefully between two different timeframes. Following a husband and wife in the 1930s in Germany, the reader is soon caught up in the high emotion, as well as strain of this time period. As impossible but morally conflicting choices are made to safeguard survival, Sofie and her scientist husband will pay for their ill-fated decisions in years to come. Rimmer does a great job with the set up of the 1930s based era, illuminating the key trends of this time. Rimmer also develops a solid sketch of her characters. I sympathised with Sofie and Jurgen, they were clearly placed in a no-win situation in an effort to protect themselves. Rimmer really gets to the nitty gritty of the emotions and moral bounds of this Ge
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