In this alternate history, the entire female population is classified into hierarchical order. Geli Girls are the most elite, Klaras are "fertile women who had produced, ideally, four or more children," professional women are Lenis, and women in caring professions are Paulas. Then come the Magda shop and factory workers, the Gretl houseworkers, and finally the Friedas, a nickname from "Friedhöfsfrauen—cemetery women. These were widows and spinsters over fifty who had no children and no reproductive purpose and who did not serve a man. There was nothing lower than that." A woman's classification determines everything from her profession, to her marriage options, to her calorie allocation: "2,613 for Gelis, 2,020 for Lenis, 2,006 for Magdas, Gretls 1,800, and Friedas, 879."

The Leader will be visiting soon and political graffiti (lines from forbidden works of literature written by women) keeps showing up in or near libraries. Ministry of Culture worker (classic texts "editor") Rose Ransom is sent on a top-secret mission to the Widowlands to flush out the rebels. There are hundreds of thousands of women in the Widowlands, every inch of the city is under constant surveillance and she is second-guessing everyone and everything she thought she knew.

This historical fiction novel was heavy on British and German history and it is easy to understand see how all that knowledge comes through in the text. Author C. J. Carey has also written "several novels under the name Jane Thynne, based around women in prewar and wartime Germany, with a particular focus on the way the regime dictated their daily lives." In the closing acknowledgments, I found the following line especially poignant: "Sowing division, turning citizens against each other, controlling the media, and restricting what people read are the skillsets of dictators everywhere." She also pointed out that "Although the setting is fictional, many figures in this novel existed, and the story is based on the genuine SS collection task force established by Alfred Rosenberg to loot Europe’s libraries for books between 1939 and 1945. Tens of millions of books were plundered from libraries in every country of Europe and brought back to several archives, including Rosenberg’s Amt Schrifttumspflege in Berlin. Rosenberg’s approach to controlling literature went far beyond book burnings, and the team he established aimed to adjust certain aspects of history to reflect National Socialist beliefs about the past."

I am now anxiously anticipating the sequel to Widowland, which the author confirmed is in production.

Many thanks to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book. Widowland was a terrifying alternate reality story about Germany winning World War Two. In this story, Germany and Great Britain form an "Alliance" and Britain is part of the Reich. The story is slow moving and then leaps to an almost unreal ending. I did not care for this book. This is no reflection on the author, the basis of the story, what if, was fantastic. But it did not flow well for me.

Author: C.J. Carey
Started: July 10, 2022
Finished: July 15, 2022

In London 1953, the world is very different than what it should be. It has been 13 years since England surrendered to the Nazis and became an outlier for the mainland of Germany. In order to keep with the thoughts and wants of The Leader, lives begin to change. Women are relegated to a more subservient role and placed into casts based on heritage, breeding abilities, and age.

Rose Ransom, a member of the elite Geli case, works for the Ministry of Culture where she works rewriting the classics to fall in line with The Leader's beliefs of what should be taught. Around her, there are signs of insurgency. Quotes about empowering women and allowing free thought begin to show up on important buildings where they can be plainly seen. It is suspected that those who live in Widowland, the lowest caste in the region, are responsible for the graffiti. Rose is given an assignment of venturing into Widowland and finding clues as to who is leaving the quotes. She comes to discover that the most unlikely people can open your eyes to the truth.

This was a very different genre that I usually read but I was very interested in the premise considering the current state of our country. It reminded me a little of 1984 by George Orwell in terms of changing the thoughts of the people and ensuring they only read what the government wants them to. This was a slow read for me because the action really did not start until the last chapter or so and then it moves quickly and I was left having to re-read in order to be sure I understood. If you are a fan of dystopian novels then you will enjoy this book.

This book is a haunting reminder of our past, as well as where we could end up in the future if we aren’t careful to learn from it. Given the current situation in the United States, where books are being banned more than ever before, and women are being treated as second class citizens, this is a timely and terrifying look into the possibilities of a world filled with leaders seeking control above all else, while putting citizens against each other. I look forward to reading the sequel as soon as it’s available!

Absolutely brilliant. This chillingly atmospheric alternative history is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Highly recommended.
Thanks to NetGalley for providing an ARC copy for my review.

All I can say about Widowland is, wow. This book pulled me in from the first page, and I had trouble putting it down.

Widowland is an alternate history historical fiction, in a world where England created an "Alliance" with Germany in the 1930s. It is now the 1950s, and England is a protectorate of Germany. Women are sorted into castes, prescribing what jobs they can have, what clothes they can wear, how many calories they get each day, and who they can associate with. Most English men have been sent to the mainland to work (or have been killed for resisting), so young women often marry older men, and often German men (or become the mistresses of German men who are stationed in England). While Germans on the mainland live in luxury, the people of the protectorates live in deprivation for the most part. They still don't have access to sugar, butter, and other cooking and baking needs, the only clothing and shoes they have access to are cheap, and there are no extras, unless you are the highest caste.

Rose works in the Chamber of Culture. Her main job is rewriting classics to fit the German standards - women shouldn't think themselves above men, they shouldn't celebrate their own intelligence, no characters should question the government - to be used in the school curriculum. She also is having an affair with Martin, who is the Assistant Culture Minister. She is a Geli, the highest caste, and while her life is better than other women's lives, she is constantly on edge to make sure her behavior, clothing, and work measures up to the standards of the Germans. There are watchers everywhere, and you never know who will turn you in for a stray remark that could be deemed seditious.

The entire country is obsessed with the royal coronation that is coming up - Edward and Wallis will finally be crowned by the Leader. Rose is asked by the Culture Minister to investigate a spate of vandalism. Someone is painting quotes about feminism, education, and fighting tyranny on walls. First they appeared near a library in Oxford, then in other cities, mostly ones where the Leader will be visiting when he comes for the coronation.

Rose is sent to one of the Widowland complexes, where women who are past the age of reproduction and meaningful work are placed. They are in the lowest caste, the Friedas, and are all "known readers." The law says people can't discuss literature in groups larger than 3 persons, but the minister believes these women are flouting that rule, and trying to make the Protectorate look bad with this obscene grafitti. Her cover is that she is to interview the women about heritage and folk traditions for a book that Protector Rosenberg is writing about England. But really, she is to see if there is any evidence the women are behind the graffiti.

As Rose investigates, she notices her coworker Oliver always seems to be lurking around. Is her spying on her, or does he have his own agenda? Can she really live with herself if she reports on the Friedas she interviewed? Is this a world she wants her niece to grow up in? And is there anything she can do about it?

Like Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Widowland shows us what the world could look like if we (as a society) take a step in a different direction. While Carey uses the names of a lot of Nazi leaders, the words "Nazi" and "Hitler" never appear in this book, and Carey says in an interview that she did that deliberately to "convey the generic nature of an oppressive regime."

While this book is heavy and depressing in its subject matter, it also shows the strength of those who resist authoritarian governments and policies. The book includes the popular quotation - ​“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” by George Santayana, and to me, this is why this book is so important. When you look at history, you see how authoritarian governments take over when people feel disenfranchised and powerless, and how some people are always looking for the easy way out if it means they don't lose their power (even if everyone else does). It is important to remember as we as a society debate the rights we afford our fellow man that when one of us loses a right, that is opening the door for someone to take a right that is important to us.

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy of this wonderful book.

“To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.”

This is a very well written feminist dystopian novel set in an alternative history that imagines what an alliance between Germany and Britain would look like if the Nazis had won WW2.

Alfred Rosenburg, Hitler’s philosopher and Protector, has big dreams for a perfect society and has divided women in his protectorate into a caste system according to Aryan ideals: looks, age, reproductive ability and racial profile. At the top are young, attractive, and educated women, the elite group, called ‘Gelis’ and at the bottom are childless women over 50, called ‘Friedas’.

The story is told from 29-year-old Rose Ransom's point of view. Rose, old enough to remember the ‘good old days’ from 13 years ago, is in the elite caste and works at the Ministry of Culture rewriting literature to accommodate Nazi values. When she is ordered to infiltrate Widowland, find the source of discontentment and obliterate it, she discovers something that has the potential to change the future of women.

I loved trudging through this ‘what if’ female nightmare! The heroines were disgruntled, highly educated women who simply armed themselves with knowledge and their brains to fight back against the powers aiming to subjugate them. I cringed at the lack of control the women had, I rooted for Rose’s tenacity, and I gasped at the ‘trouble’ - quotes from feminist writers seen as graffiti - that Rose was sent to investigate! I enjoyed the author’s exploration of the power of literature in the hands of strong women as a formidable force.

Count me in as an eager reader of Queen High, the sequel, when it’s published in October 2022.

I was gifted this advance copy by C.J. Carey, Sourcebooks Landmark, and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review.

I got this book on a whim even though it isn’t my typical pick and it just wasn’t for me. The writing is good it just wasn’t something that I really enjoyed reading. Thank you net galley for this ARC

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Widowland is a novel written on the hypothesis that Germany won WWII. It is chillingly disturbing and reeks of Big Brother and totalitarian control.

In this vividly imagined alternate history of an England ruled by Germany after WWII, Rose Ransom knows how to survive.

She keeps her head down, edits out the subversive bits of Jane Eyre, and grimaces through her one-sided relationship with a Nazi official. The constant surveillance, self-policing, and paranoia is enough to drive anyone mad, but Rose has a secret. The novels she’s meant to tame for public consumption are changing her irrevocably, and she can’t help but write words of her own, hiding the journals in her apartment.

While the regime seeks to divide women into classes, elevating some and subjugating others, the women in this story find strength in each other as they refuse to tolerate an intolerable situation. A plausible and enjoyable ‘what-if’!

The premise of this book intrigued me from the very beginning. As a historian, I will sometimes find myself think “but what if” and C. J. Carey apppears to have had the same the question. This book examines an alternative ending to WWII. The Americans held fast to their policy of isolation which lead to Germany taking control of Britain. German leaders work to implement a caste system for women only and rewrite history and literature. Rose (main character) works as a corrector and her job is to update literature to be more in line with the views of the Alliance. Through this work Rose encounters the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Brontë (among others). Her work in this department as well as her “friendship” with another man in the Culture Ministry leads her down a path of rather unexpected events.

Overall I thought the writing was good. It got a little long winded at times as the author over described minor characters. The story kept me intrigued as I tried to solve the mystery of who could or could not be trusted. It felt like the author was trying to cover a lot of ground in one book and then left the ending open to lead into a second book. The writing style almost went from over descriptive to too fast between the first 75% of the book and the final 25%.

For those interested in other titles like 1984 and the Handmaids Tail this book is for you. It has a nice combination of world history along side dystopian themes.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for this review.

It’s 1953 and Britain has been a protectorate of Germany for thirteen years. Instead of WWII, the government of Great Britain agreed to join the Alliance, Germany’s formation of territories that includes, among others, France and Austria. There is a protector from Germany, or the mainland, who oversees the British government and the rules and regulations implemented with the joining of the Alliance. There is still royalty, a King and Queen, but it is King Edward VIII and Queen Wallis who sit on the throne as figureheads. King George V and his family have vanished, including the two princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. The Protector, Alfred Rosenberg from Germany, holds all the power and now lives at 10 Downing Street, London. There is no longer a Prime Minister.

Everything has changed from how it was in the Britain of Before. One of the most jarring changes is in the application of a caste system to the women. After a female’s fourteenth birthday in Britain, she receives a letter to summon her for a classification date. The appointments include physical examinations, which incorporate taking measurements of the skull and close attention to nose shape and eye color, with the results compared to a chart to determine placement. Family history and mental illness are also covered. The caste assigned by the Frauenshaft, or Women’s Services, will follow you the rest of your life unless you get demoted for some reason. Different classifications include, from the top to the bottom, the Gelis, the first, elite class; Klaras, the all-important mothers producing offspring for the Alliance; Lenis, professional women, like office workers and actresses; Paulas, the caring professions of teachers and nurses; Magdas, shop and factory workers; Gretls, the kitchen and domestic staff; and the Friedas, those women over fifty who are widowed or childless. The Friedas live in places called Widowland, the worst possible housing and conditions. They are non-essential in every way. The names for the classifications are taken from women

There are regulations for each caste of women, down to the number of calories they are allocated daily. Also, their hair styles, where to live, shop, eat, go. Rose Ransom’s classification occurred when she was sixteen, and she was luckily assigned top classification, a Geli. None of the women are allowed to vote. Women of childbearing age are supposed to find a husband and bear children for the Alliance. If women lag behind on this responsibility, they will be visited by the authorities and be questioned. To complicate the achievement of having children, there is a scarcity of British men available, as many of them have been sent on Extended National Service for the Alliance, so some women become desperate and place ads in newspapers for husbands. These ads do not draw the most attractive results.

Other adverse changes affecting the people of Britain include more and more raw materials going to Germany and depleting Britain’s supplies of food, clothing material, and even paper. The average Alliance citizen in Britain has “shabby clothes and worn shoes.” Clothing is regulated through a system of coupons, which is, of course, dependent on what caste. Many women have sewing machines to try and piece together clothes to wear. It is mostly noticeable in women’s clothing, as men’s differences aren’t as pronounced. Only the very privileged have cars and decent housing. Religion has been replaced with the Nazi encouragement to worship the Leader (Hitler) and be committed to the Nazi philosophy.

At first there was open resistance to the Alliance by many British citizens, but that was put down quickly and violently, and now the resistance has gone underground. If discovered, insurgents are picked up in vans and taken away, most likely to a “camp. Germany controls the desire to rebel by controlling communication with the outside free world, only allowing Alliance sponsored news on the radio and in the paper and not allowing any travel outside the British Isles. So, most of the population of Britain doesn’t know what’s going on other than in their own backyard and has only their restricted views of truth. Journalists are all under close scrutiny and have to write only what complies with the Alliance message and beliefs. “Life in the Alliance was a process of continual observation. Universal Surveillance, it was called. Eyes followed you everywhere, seen and unseen.” Freedom Radio from America was secretly accessible, but it was risking your life and that of your family if caught, and with neighbors spying on neighbors, few would risk it.

Departments exist to control all aspects of life, to ensure that the past way of life is forgotten and Nazism rules thoughts and actions, such as the Department of Culture. This department deals with literature and music and art and film (movies), not only banning that which is not in sync with the Nazi philosophy and teachings, but it also is tasked with altering the classics of literature to reflect the demoted value of women and their inferiority to men. Some American music is allowed, but not jazz or swing. Art, too, is tightly controlled, with many great artists, such as Van Gogh, labeled degenerate and banned from public viewing. Even the colors allowed to be used in current art are restricted. Only approved movies with approved actors and actresses can be shown at the movie theater, and there is always a newsreel from the Alliance before the movie with propagandized news.

Rose Ransom, English born, is employed by the Ministry of Culture to perform the important job of Alliance “correction” to literature classics. It is through Rose’s eyes readers will experience this nightmare version of 1953 England. Rose is not robotic in her job or her life, but she does adhere to the confines of what is required and/or mandated of her in the world the Alliance has brought to her homeland. She observes the rules of what certain people can and can’t do. Fortunately, she was classified as a Geli, and she is privy to a better life than so many other of her sisterhood in Britain. She sits in the best seats at the movie theater, she receives more rations, she’s allowed access to cafes and restaurants, and has an apartment in a building with its amenities still intact.

Rose is tasked with rewriting the parts of classic literature works that in any way promote women being smarter or more capable than men. This project is part of the Protector’s plan to address the “woman question,” as Assistant Cultural Commissioner Kreuz puts it to her when handing her the job to correct the classic books used in schools. Rather than ban the well-known books, they will be changed so that “no passages would infringe the Alliance line on feminine portrayal,” which is, of course, that women are never superior to men in any way. In the novel Emma by Jane Austen, Rose has to tune the story to show that Emma should not have tried to match someone above their caste, that women should not strive for marriage above their caste. The guidelines Rose is to follow in her “correction” of the stories is that “no female protagonist should be overly intelligent, dominant or subversive, no woman should be rewarded for challenging a man, and no narrative should undermine in any way the Protector’s views of the natural relationship between the sexes.”

But, Rose’s work with altering literature has had an unexpected side effect. She has grown fond of stories and her outlet for it is to tell stories she’s made up to her young niece and to write stories in a journal made from scraps of paper. She hides the journal in the wall of her apartment, as its discovery could result in a demotion of her caste level or worse. So, while Rose operates obediently in the Alliance’s system, she hasn’t lost her imagination, which is something the Alliance fervently wants people to abandon. If one uses their imagination, then a better, different life could be imagined. Martin tells Rose that “books are intellectual weapons,” and she realizes how right he is. The Alliance knows how powerful reading and words can be, so they delay teaching girls to read until they’re eight-years-old and discourage any interest in reading thereafter. With books so hard to come by in the Britain under the Alliance, people may indeed be forgetting its pleasure. Rose has a chilling conversation with Martin, in which he refers to the past and the future: “You know the Party believes there is no shame in illiteracy. We discourage reading for lower orders. It’s hardly revolutionary. American slaves weren’t permitted to read. For centuries Catholics held the mass in Latin. Besides, most people don’t actually want to read. They’d rather listen to the wireless or go to the movies. Once this new television gets off the ground, reading will wither away in a generation, you’ll see. People will fall out of the habit of reading, and once that happens, the mere act of reading will be harder.”

Rose is also caught in a personal relationship with her boss, one that is not of her choosing. The Assistant Cultural Commissioner, Martin Kreuz, who is from Germany, where he has a wife and the perfect family of four children, has chosen Rose to be his mistress, and she has no power to refuse. It’s become a challenge for her to return his affections, but he is not someone she can reject. Even though there is a Department of Morality, and adultery is supposed to be a criminal offense, a blind eye is usually turned to the higher ranking officials’ affairs. Of course, when it serves a purpose, an affair can be a threatening weapon. So it happens that the Director of Cultural Affairs Eckberg uses the threat of exposure of her affair with Kreuz against Rose to obtain her cooperation to spy on a group of Friedas in Oxford. The Freidas are suspected of vandalism, painting feminist quotes from literature on the sides of buildings. This is unacceptable at any time, but with the Coronation and the Leader’s visit nearing, it’s absolutely essential that everything be under control. The Leader will make his first appearance in Oxford on his trip, so Oxford must make a grand impression.

Upon seeing the squalor in which the widows/Friedas live, Rose is appalled by the falling-down houses and lack of food or clothing. Friedas must always dress in black, and the amount of clothing they can have is severely limited. Their rations are miniscule and don’t contain any meat. If not for the vegetable gardens they grow, they would starve. Posing as a researcher for the Protector Rosenberg’s book he is writing on British folklore and historical links to the Germans, Rose is allowed to talk to a small group of the Freidas. It’s ironic that she is asking them to remember the Before, as one of the Alliance’s favorite mottos is “Memory is treacherous.” For the British, “Memory was like a muscle (and) the less you used it, the less it worked.” Rose finds nothing to cast suspicion on the Freidas for subterfuge and returns to London, although she will have to make a second trip to try again.

If staying off the radar is the way to survive in the Alliance, Rose can no longer hope to enjoy that status. As the days grow closer to the inauguration of King Edward and Queen Wallis and the long-awaited visit of the Leader, Rose will find herself in the middle of events she no longer can control. She will face a harrowing experience. Can she get her life back to normal, or what was normal in the Alliance, or does she even want that anymore? Who will get what they want out of the Leader’s visit? Will the cheers for Hitler forever doom England? So much to find out in this amazing story.

I was riveted to the pages of Widowland by C.J. Carey for its spectacular setup of this alternative history for so many reasons. First, there are lots of allusions to factual history behind the story, such as the Bride Schools Erich Himmler and the retaliative destruction of the Czech town of Lidice and murder of its residents. It’s helpful to have some knowledge of Hitler’s Germany when reading Widowland, but even then, I can guarantee that you will fall down rabbit holes looking up more information to fill in some blanks. One of my favorite parts of reading is that a book of fiction can send me Googling as fast as I can for more back story. The horror of Nazi Germany cannot be exaggerated and reading books like Widowland drive home the importance of not letting such a horror get a toehold ever again. Of course, there have been more despots and more atrocities in the world since Hitler, but this story conveys the message that it could happen anywhere.

Is the worst still to come in Rose’s life, in England? What are the “executive orders” Martin Kreuz referred to? Are Great Britain and the rest of Europe doomed to forever live under the Alliance’s/Hitler’s tight control? Can America remain isolated? I will warn readers that this book has a giant cliffhanger, which oddly enough didn’t disturb me, probably because there is another Widowland book coming out in the UK on October 13th, entitled Queen High. I couldn’t yet find the U.S. date, but it shouldn’t be too far behind the UK one.

To close this lengthy review, I will add that the time readers invest in this 400 page book (not really all that long) is time well spent. The pages will seem to fly by, as C.J. Carey casts a spell from the opening pages of this alternative history book and uses her carefully honed talent (as author Jane Thynee) to hold us spellbound until the last chilling sentence. Widowland is not a book to be pigeon-holed by a category such a science fiction, where many alternative history tales are placed. It is as much a thriller as it is any category. The character that receives the only in-depth character development is Rose, but that doesn’t mean that the other characters aren't fascinating. Rose is the vehicle from which we see the story, and it is her thoughts we are privy to. I am sure that Widowland will be up for some well-deserved awards this year. I am eagerly awaiting its sequel.





Link to author Jane Thynee's (C.J. Carey) article on the Nazi Bride Schools

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570959/Sinister-secrets-school-Nazi-brides-From-love-pledges-Fuhrer-lessons-breeding-master-race-The-astonishing-expose-Himmlers-bridal-bootcamp.html

This is an amazing story about alternative history! What if Hitler had conquered Britain? This story explores the scary possibility and keeps the reader interested with much espionage and several twists.

Widowland takes place in a chillin, dystopian alternate England, where Hitler's protector controls Britain and women are classified and subjugated. History is stolen, literature rewritten, and free thought is forbidden. Rose is attractive and well-regarded within this authoritarian society, but she has secrets that may destroy her.

Widowland
by C.J. Carey
Pub Date: August 9, 2022
Sourcebooks
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book. I have not read anything by this author but it is an eery and interesting book that asks What if?
For readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle comes a thrilling feminist dystopian novel set in an alternative history that terrifyingly imagines what a British alliance with Germany would look like if the Nazis had won WWII.
I liked it, yes alternative history is so interesting. All those what ifs. The UK turned into a really scary place.
4 stars

Widowland is Handmaid's Tale meets Anne Frank's Diary, a fascinating look at the what if of a future Nazi Germany.

Thank you for the advanced reader edition.

A dystopian novel about “what if the Nazis won” type of storyline with a surprising but satisfactory ending. Good characterisation. Enjoyable read.

There's a lot to praise about Widowland: the alternative-history premise and how well the setting was evoked; the writing style, which was just descriptive enough to establish a sense of reality but not so verbose that it distracted from the story. But at the 80% mark, suddenly there seemed to be a race to tie up loose ends while simultaneously introducing implausibilities. Even worse, at least to me, was an out-of-nowhere romance that led the up-to-now cautious protagonist to trust uncharacteristically place all her trust in someone and that introduced a male as the driver of the plot. In a story about women striving to overcome their lack of autonomy, that irked me. It was on a par with those 1950s movies where the hero and the love interest are running from the bad guys, and of course the woman stumbles, and the hero has to carry her the rest of the way. Blech. A real shame.

Thank you, NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark, for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Widowland by CJ Carey is an alternate history novel that is much more compulsively readable than many of the other alternate history books I've read (1984, Handmaids Tale, etc). After a few pages, I was completely immersed in the world of Widowland. I loved how the author excavated subversive elements from classic novels to highlight the society's wrongs. It was a completely fresh take on an often dry genre. Highly recommend!

A very interesting book especially the title. You find out what WI DOW LAN D comes to me in the book. Rose I am So N and she is a person who works in a very privileged area.. The book takes place in 1953 and says afterward 2 when 1 surrendered to German and How everything was controlling by German. The rose remembers before all this was a place and she writes stories and stuff in your head her sister has told me about into the system. She works for the ministry of culture which means she's translating books it's translating books and alternating them to fit their ideals I do but she doesn't really like to do this but she has no choice. She has a very lonely life she will not marry and her know her time is coming. It's also having an affair with the very upcoming class now need Martin name Martin and I don't think she was really happy with this. She becomes friends with Oliver who seems to be doing things against the government. They send around this area because people are starting to rebuild they belong and they wanted to know where this was coming from So they sent rose Too WI DOW LAN G Find out what these women were doin. She becomes friends with a lot of them and she sees how they really are and how they're free when they're thinking This place is also for women over 50 with no children. It's a great book as many twisting timesy..