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'...a compelling tale...I couldn't stop turning the pages' --Young Lawyer/ The Legal Intelligencer on Kommandant's Girl
'…well constructed and a real page turner.' --Birmingham Jewish Weekly
'...poignant and intense story of loyalty, duty and betrayal' --Good Book Guide
'…well constructed and a real page turner.' --Birmingham Jewish Weekly
'...poignant and intense story of loyalty, duty and betrayal' --Good Book Guide
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"How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died...But I am here."Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror, she meets an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when his plane crashes.Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries a caring British Diplomat and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. But her happiness is threatened when she learns of a communist spy in British intelligence, and that the one person who can expose the traitor is connected to her past...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Real shame as the earlier book was promising but this is spoiled by ridiculous coincidences, flat and superficial characterisation and mostly by, as others have noted, ludicrous mistakes. How come everyone is using duvets in the UK when they weren't seen till the 70s or common till the 80s? Who told the author that the English for 'bathroom' is 'toilet (or lavatory or WC) without explaining the subtleties that though we relieve ourselves in toilets, we do actually use bathrooms to wash; so having a bath in a toilet just isn't on! I have asked my mother about the chances of finding an ice-cream vendor outside Westminster Abbey in September 1945 and she is still laughing - sweets were still rationed until the early 50s so getting an icecream sold openly days after the war ended seems unlikely - I could go on... But I don't blame the author for this, what on else was her editor doing not to have had an English person who had some idea of recent history read it before it went to print? I kept reading because it was an interesting story and the actual prose flowed quite well, but the book was thrown across the room a few times!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found myself becoming increasingly irritated by the number of mistakes in this totally unbelievable concoction. For example, a transistor radio was mentioned at one point, whereas as far as I know they did not become available until the 1960's. And were married women with young children allowed to stay on at work in the British Civil Service in the 1940's? As for the story line, the more I read the more unbelievable it became, until I finally gave up at page 261. What a waste of my time!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book and the Kommandants girl together as they looked very promising. How wrong was I. This book, the Diplomats Wife I found to be slightly more interesting than the Kommandants Girl. However I am barely half way through and it is driving me mad. There are so many glaring factual errors. Marta the Polish Jewish refugee /ex partisan is in France immediately after the war and sheltering in a church when some women enter the church to pray "removing their kerchiefs" A glaring mistake they would have covered their heads on entering the church! Marta gets to London staying with a wealthy old woman and her butler. They have a full English breakfast every morning, and the woman buys her new clothes and shoes. No mention of shortages and rationing. Marta is taken on a sightseeing tour of London to see all the major tourist attractions. Not one mention of the devastation and aftermath of the Blitz only tea at Harrods and browsing antique stalls. She goes to Kings Cross station and in the pub "in the station" there are women factory workers drinking pints of beer! Never at that time! It fleetingly crosses her mind that her hostess and Londoners must also have suffered in the war listening to "Nazi bombers which roared overhead" No mention of the bombs that dropped. She has been in London a while when she suddenly looks up at the ceiling "noticing for the first time the places where the plaster had shaken loose from the bombing. They suffered here too"! Don't think I can finish it. The only consolation is I can donate these books to a charity shop.
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The Diplomat's Wife
I enjoyed this book quite a lot, but found it a bit far fetched in some of the coincidences when people met other people after previously parting. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Christine Lillington
Too many mistakes - badly researched
This book had lots of potential but I found it hard to finish due to error after glaring error. Pam Jenoff is apparently an expert on Poland and the Holocaust but obviously didn't... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cath
Absolutely Brilliant
I have just one word of warning. Do not pick this book up if you need to do any work around the house, cook the dinner, bath the kids. Once picked up you can't put it down!
Published 16 months ago by Chattyali
Far-fetched!
On the whole I found this book quite entertaining, but as I read on I became increasingly annoyed with how easily and neatly the strands of Marta's life seemed to fall into place... Read more
Published 21 months ago by trudieliz
The Diplomats Wife
One of the best books I have ever read! She is the most amazing author. The book is filled with love, suspense and the hardships of wartime. You just cant put it down. Read more
Published on 4 May 2010 by Michelle Nassimi
maybe the worst book I have ever read?
I was lent this by a friend, and then felt compelled to finish it out of politeness to them. It really stank. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by Anna
Not as good as her debut novel
I definitely did not enjoy this as much as 'Kommandant's Girl' but it was still a compelling and exciting read. Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by Rachel
Another good read.
A good follow up to The Kommandants Girl, A very heart searching read from Pam Jenoff. If you are interested in the war and plight of the jews and others during the second World... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2009 by B. L. Radcliffe
The Diplomat's Wife - Pam Jenoff
I really enjoyed this book, but I was a bit dissapointed by some of detail, in the 1940's we didn't have motorways to Luton, and also in this country we were still on rationing. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by Bookcave
The Diplomat's Wife
A good follow on to previous book but as an American author not quite getting the dialogue right for English characters, particularly of the post-war period.
Published on 2 Feb 2009 by P. R. Owen
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