The Lost Girls of Paris

A Novel

Hardcover, 384 pages

Published Jan. 29, 2019 by Park Row.

ISBN:
978-0-7783-0861-4
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4 stars (2 reviews)

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.

Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a ring of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the …

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3 stars

I liked the premise (women spy ring from the UK is deployed to Paris during WWII - similar to The Alice Network), but I had a few issues with the plot and character development - relationships happened too quickly to be credible, the main character (Marie) made a bunch of bone-head decisions that didn't catch up to her, etc.

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