Lilac Girls is a historical fiction novel. It is the first book in the Woolsey Ferriday novel series. The book is authored by Martha Hall Kelly. She is a bestselling author of Lilac Girls in the New York Times. Sunflower Sisters and Lost Roses are also her bestselling novels and are worth listening to.
The audio narration of Lilac Girls is done by Cassandra Campbell, Kathrin Kana, Kathleen Gati, and Martha Hall Kelly herself. The multiple narrators worked well for the story and the characters.
Caroline Ferriday was a socialite in New York. She had her hands filled with her appointment at the French consulate and had a good new love on the horizon. But, the entire world of her was changed for good when the army of Hitler invaded Poland. This happened in September 1939. And then he had his eyes set on invading France.
Kasia Kuzmerick was a Pols teenager who was an ocean away from Caroline. She sensed that her carefree kind of youth disappeared just as she was drawn way deeper into her role as the courier meant for the resistance movement underground. In a highly tense kind of atmosphere with suspecting neighbors and extremely watchful eyes, one wrong move could lead to problematic consequences.
For Herta, an ambitious German doctor, an ad for the government-based medical position looked to be her ticket leading her completely out of a desolate life. Once hired, she discovered herself completely trapped in a realm dominated by men
The story in this book is based on the experiences of real people and that made this title so much more interesting. Not to forget the narrators who performed this title well.
