Member Review

Codebreaker Girls tells the true story about the men, but mostly women, who were breaking the codes of encrypted messages during the second world war.
The story is told through the eyes of Daisy Lawrence, one of the thousands of woman who were deciphering, cataloguing and filing messages in secret at Bletchley Park.
I found the story very interesting, especially the first and last parts of the book. I have learned a lot about what went on in England during the war.
But I also found the book hard to read at times, mainly because after the initial part that narrated how Daisy came to be at Bletchley Park and her search for information about her fiancee Stan, there was a long stretch of endless explanation about the various coding systems, filing systems that were just too detailed and most tedious of all was the endless description of a the buildings and offices and the way their names kept changing. I couldn't see how all the information about the buildings was really significant for the story.
Than at the end it got very interesting again, when the author describes her mothers struggle with keeping what she did at Bletchley secret. I never realised how this influenced a lot of peoples minds.

Well, on the whole interesting, but I can't give more than 3 stars because of the tedious parts.

I thank Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.