By the end they’ve all found answers to these questions, though of course they’ve found more questions along the way!īeth–a cryptanalyst–has the kind of brain that sees and rearranges patterns, which is what makes her so good at wedging a foot in the door of seeming impenetrable code.

Beth is struggling to get out from behind her domineering mother’s shadow. Mab is struggling to find security, not just for herself but for her little sister. Osla is struggling to prove herself as more than just a pretty debutante, and struggling to find a home and family–a place she belongs.

Does Osla, Mab, and Beth undergo a character arc?.I wanted to explore a story about the ladies instead! Most of the books I’d read about BP were about the male codebreakers, yet women were by far the majority of the workforce by the end. What inspired you to tell the story of three female code breakers of Bletchley Park?.Bletchley Park has been on my radar for a long time…about 4 years ago I saw an article about it and for some reason it sparked the notion of “Hmm, I wonder if I could set a novel there…” Was The Rose Code inspired by The Huntress, or The Alice Network? But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger–and their true enemy–closeġ. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter–the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.ġ947.

Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.ġ940.

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