At first while reading into the early pages of this book entitled, A Mother's War, I wondered how this could be about mothers. After all it is a wartime setting and it was the men who went out to fight. The battlefront of WWII was not in Norway either - so how and where do mother's get into the fray? Hitler's evil plan for his master race unfolds in this historical fiction account and as it progressed I realized, "Aha!" - the mother's war indeed. Laila, the Norwegian lass and Joseph, one of the German conqueror lads, along with other young Norweigian-German couples unfurl the little spoken of aspect of how young unwed mothers were treated as 'baby factories'.
There was some joy in the narrative but also the heartbreak. Readers will need some stomach to read through the pages outlining the 'awful truth' of wicked men and war. Intimate scenes are described so some readers may need to take these graphics into consideration.
I like that there were good friendships made among the mothers and even compassionate German individuals showing how not all of them were condoning these actions and plans.
4-star rating from me.
~Eunice C., Reviewer/Blogger~
April 2023
Disclaimer: This is my honest opinion based on the complimentary review copy sent to me by NetGalley and the publisher.
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