City of Women: A Novel - Softcover

"I can't wait for Gillham's next novel--play it again, Sam."
--Stephen King

"The writing is a great mix of the literary and commercial, page-turning and suspenseful, with a morally complex, intelligent heroine at its center. If you're a fan of well-written historical novels in the vein of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, this one is for you."
--Slate

"Philip Kerr and Alan Furst have outdone their literary counterparts. Now, with his first novel, City of Women, David R. Gillham joins their rank."
--Charles Finch, USA Today

"Gillham's writing is often stunning . . . The characters are complex . . . Deeply felt and mercilessly real."
--The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

"A meticulously researched and beautifully told love story--and a remarkable look at life in Germany during World War II."
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"[A] stunning debut . . . Transcendent prose."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"As impossible to put down as it is to forget."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An exemplary model of historical fiction generously laced with romance, suspense, and exciting plot twists."
--Library Journal (starred review)

"A thriller of searing intensity that asks the most urgent of questions--how to love, who to trust, what can be saved in the very darkest of times. . . . Utterly compelling."
--Margaret Leroy, New York Times bestselling author of The Soldier's Wife

"A moving and masterful debut . . . Powerful and piercingly real. You won't soon forget these characters."
--Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. A first novel.