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Wartime Wishes at Bletchley Park (Bletchley Park Girls #3) by Molly Green      

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Madeline Hamilton had always wanted to be an actress. Something her mother forbade. 

Maddie is sent down from University after being found with a man in her rooms. She takes a position as a nanny to a Jewish family returning to Munich. 

It’s 1938 and Maddie becomes alarmed at the changes in the German people. Hitler has come to power and anti semitism is rife 

When Mr. Weinberg is taken by the Gestapo, Madeline decides to leave for England. Mrs. Weinberg begs her to take the children with her to their aunt and uncle in Berlin. When that strikes problems she’s asked to take the children with her to other relations in London.

Maddie’s return to England is dangerous with the children. Fortunately she has help from someone she met by chance on the train to Berlin. James Sylvester is a cultural attaché with the British Embassy in Munich. He helps her to get the children to England.

On her return home, knowing what’s going on in Germany, Madeline applies to the Foreign Office as a German speaker.

She ends up in Bletchley Park. James makes a reappearance there as well. Romance is definitely in the air until she finds out that James has secrets.

I must admit that the fleeing from Germany was exciting, as was Madeline’s time at Bletchley and further north, (in ‘Forbes War’ country!) but I found Madeline’s refusal to talk to James about her feelings for him illogical and frustrating.

An Avon ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.