I found this novel to be very exciting and historically fascinating. The work of brilliant women and men led to the ultimate success of solving the Enigma machine and the eventual Allied victory. Though the main characters are fictional, this story gives insight into the secret lives of the Bletchley Park codebreakers.  It carefully depicts the heavy mental burden they may have felt as they swore an oath of confidentiality while uncovering such important information.  The story illustrates how secrecy puts a strain on relationships.  The book is quite long and may have started off a little slow, but don’t put it down. It was very enjoyable! I'On Resident Catherine Kotz

                                      

Kate Quinn, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, returns with The Rose Code, a heart-stopping World War II story that effortlessly evokes the secretive world of the Enigma codebreakers.

In 1940, as England prepares for war with Germany, 7,500 women are recruited to the Government and Cypher School at the famed and mysterious Bletchley Park to train under the most brilliant minds in the physically demanding and emotionally draining commission of decoding messages encrypted by Germany’s Enigma Machine. 

The Rose Code follows three women who, working in unison in their commitment to the war effort, form a deep friendship, but slowly and manipulatively are torn apart by a traitor who sets them against each other in a betrayal reaching well past the end of the war.

Long estranged, the women are reunited by a mysterious, encrypted letter and forced to work together to solve one last code – the Rose Code – the key to which lies buried in the long-ago deception that destroyed their alliance -- bringing new danger and their true enemy closer. 

Kate Quinn has brought the hidden history of Bletchley Park to life in this gripping, thrilling tale of courage, secrecy, and betrayal in this beautifully, in-depth, executed novel.