⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My first Audiobook of 2022, The German Wife by Debbie Rix, enthralled me from the beginning. Brilliantly narrated by Tamsin Kennard, I plugged myself in at every given opportunity and just couldn’t get enough of Annaliese, Alexander and Hans. Largely set in Germany, during the Second World War, we live life amongst the Vogel family and Hans’ work at Dachau prisoner of war camp. Fast forward to the late 1980s in North America and we discover how their journey has continued.
Listening to The German Wife went some way to showing me more about the atrocities that went on inside the German concentration camps, and how some SS officers probably had little say in what their job roles involved if they wanted to stay alive themselves. We discover the lies that people told, and the in-depth deceit that occurred, all to seem to be, upstanding members of their community.
Debbie Rix has researched her book incredibly well, and before now I hadn’t really thought about how the Nazi regime affected the German people and the way of life which they were forced to endure. We have to remember that most of the people who lived in Germany, would have just wanted a peaceful life, but that they had to live knowing of many brutal acts that would have been carried out, which were beyond their control.
I would thoroughly recommend The German Wife for anyone who enjoys historical fiction and would like to read a book based on the war from a differing viewpoint.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for the opportunity to listen to and review an ARC of The German Wife by Debbie Rix.
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