Plano Reads: Second Tuesday Will Discuss Kate Quinn’s ‘The Rose Code’ on May 9

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, Osla, Mab and Beth bring their own unique skills to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Although they become close colleagues, in time war, loss, and the impossible pressure of their secret lives will tear the three apart.

But by 1947, as a royal wedding approaches, a mysterious encrypted letter draws the trio back together to find a traitor, someone they knew at Bletchley Park. Can they crack one final code, the Rose Code, that will reveal the betrayer’s name?

Describing her novel, Kate Quinn comments, “I realized that yes, this would be a book about codebreaking—brilliant coffee-fueled women staring at jumbles of nonsense letters, drawing connections across chalkboards in a wild attempt to break a battle plan’s cipher before ships are launched … but this is also a book about … the kind of friendship that exists between women who have finally found a place that accepts them for who they are and what they can do. And what they can do, in between dancing to Glenn Miller and reading mystery novels on their off-hours, is break the unbreakable, decode the impossible, and win a war.”

Kate Quinn began writing historical fiction in 2010 and has had four bestsellers set during World War II–The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The Diamond Eye. She has been praised for her well-developed characters and the extensive research that enhances her novels. She says that she has loved history all her life, and hopes to share that with all her readers.

She grew up in Southern California and now lives in San Diego. She holds two degrees in classical voice from Boston University. Her website is here and includes links to her other social media accounts.