Review: The Lost Girls Of Paris

The Lost Girls Of Paris by Pam Jenoff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A great bit of hokum that's very much "inspired by" rather than "based on" true events. While there really were female operatives of the SOE and 12 didn't come back, this account of what happened does seem a tad implausible - veering into melodramatic Allo Allo "I wll say this only once" territory at times. Particularly unlikely is that a plucky American widow is the one to unearth their fates.

So if you want understand more about the female operatives of the SOE, read one of the books that Jenoff (who, to be fair, doesn't prevent to have written anything other than a work of fiction) recommends. If you want an enjoyable, engrossing, second world war drama, read this.

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