Title: The Prisoner’s Wife
Author: Maggie Brookes
Year of Publication: 2020
Series: NA
Series #: NA
Goodreads Rating (Avg.): 4.08
Goodreads Rating (Mine): 4
Synopsis: Izzy, young Czech girl falls in love with an American POW and helps him escape. Eloping together, the young couple must evade the Nazis and try to find their way back to safety. When captured, Izzy disguises herself as a man so that she won’t be separated from her new husband in the Nazi POW camps.
The Prisoner’s Wife is loosely based on a true story rumour. An obscure war story about a young woman who dressed as a man to be with her husband. Ultimately, the author was not able to trace the couple. However, rumour and legend come together well to form a base for The Prisoner’s Wife – an engrossing, gripping tale that stretches across rural Europe.
I’d initially put off reading this book because I expected it to be dry. However, Izzy and Bill drew me in through the direness of their straits, and their singleminded determination to be with each other, to protect each other, no matter what.
The Prisoner’s Wife paints a realistic picture of navigating the harshest realities of war – POW camps, unscrupulous, predatory, grasping men, the ravaging horror of illness, and the unexpected kindness that shines through in human beings during such dark times and circumstances.
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