The Diplomat's Wife

By Pam Jenoff

Subjects: Pregnancy, fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2020-12-20, Married people, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, London (england), fiction, Romance, Diplomats' spouses, Historical Fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Spy stories, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, women, Spies, German Prisoners and prisons

Description: 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.1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror, she meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes.Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, 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.