03622cam a2200781 i 4500 520741680 TxAuBib 20211028120000.0 210224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063059412 hardcover 006305941X hardcover (OCoLC)1239322753 TxAuBib rda Quinn, Kate. The rose code : a novel / Kate Quinn. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] ©2021. 624, 24 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "P.S. Insights, interviews & more ..."--Jacket. Includes readers guide with discussion questions. Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip. "1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Mab works the legendary codebreaking machines and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Beth's shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and she becomes one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, the three women 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"--adapted from jacket. 20211029. Great Britain Government Communications Headquarters Fiction. Great Britain Government Communications Headquarters. 1900-1999. Female friendship Fiction. World War 1939-1945 Women England Fiction. World War 1939-1945 Cryptography Fiction. World War 1939-1945 Women Fiction. World War 1939-1945 Fiction. Cryptographers England Fiction. Cryptographers Fiction. Traitors England Fiction. Nineteen forties Fiction. Code and cipher stories. Cryptographers. Cryptography. Female friendship. Manners and customs. Nineteen forties. Traitors. Women. Friendship Fiction. England Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) Fiction. England. England Milton Keynes Bletchley Park. Great Britain. Code and cipher stories. War stories. Novels. Spy stories. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Spy fiction. Historical fiction. Spy fiction. War fiction. Novels. TXDCK