# City of Women

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- Book: [City of Women](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-gillham/city-of-women) ([City of Women.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-gillham/city-of-women.md))
- Authors: [David Gillham](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-gillham)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-224-4
- Published: 2013-01-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model soldier's wife: she goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former Jewish lover, who is now lost in the chaos of the war. Sigrid's tedious existence is turned upside-down when she finds herself hiding a mother and her two young daughters: could they be her lover's family? Now she must make terrifying choices that could cost her everything.