TY - BOOK AU - Kelly,Martha Hall TI - Lilac girls: a novel SN - 9781101883082 (pbk.) : AV - PS3611.E452 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine KW - Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Women KW - General KW - ukslc N2 - New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 - and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbours, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens ER -