01971cam a2200277 4500 1147899538 TxAuBib ||||||t20172016||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101883082 1101883081 TxAuBib Kelly, Martha Hall, author. Lilac girls : a novel / Martha Hall Kelly. Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2017. ©2016. 502 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Includes Random House Reader's Circle reader's guide (pages 489-502). Caroline Ferriday, a socialite in New York, has her hands full with her post at the French consulate, but on the eve of a fateful war, her world is changed forever when Hitler's army invades Poland in September, 1939; and then sets its sights on France. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, an ocean away from Caroline, 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 suspcting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For Herta Oberheuser, the ambitious young German doctor, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, Herta 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 and Kasia is sent to Ravensbr♭ck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Ravensbr♭ck (Concentration camp) Fiction. Nazis Europe Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Women Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945 Fiction.