Audiobook Review: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

Blurb from Goodreads:

1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.

1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter - the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger - and their true enemy - closer. .

My Review:
Wow, this was SO, so good.  One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to and you must read or listen to this book if you like historical fiction, novels about WW II, the movie The Imitation Game, or the TV series Bletchley Circle.  The characters were so well developed, the plot was heartbreaking but most of all it felt so real.  I loved this book!

I highly recommend this to fans of historical fiction!  This book is so good and I loved the narrator.  The Rose Code came out earlier this month on March 9, 2021, you can purchase HERE, and I hope you consider reading or listening to this one!

Ian Fleming from the Admiralty (known as the Phlegm among the many BP females he has backed into a corner) is a classic case in point: damp hands, gin fumes, slinks about like something out of a cheap spy novel.