It also highlights the contributions of women like Ellen, who turns out to be a Scottish Traveler, a despised minority. It’s an illuminating historical read and a realistic depiction of the costs of war. The pilot billets at the pub, keeps everyone at bay with a pistol and flies away, leaving clues that lead Louisa to a hidden code-breaking device - the Enigma machine - which, with Frau von Arnim’s translating help, may turn the tide of the war.Īt more than 400 pages, this novel looks intimidating, but its twisty plot, multivoiced narration and poetic prose make it fly by. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart, a British flying ace Ellen McEwen, a volunteer transport driver and Louisa Adair, a 15-year-old half-Jamaican English orphan hired sight unseen (because of her proper British accent) to care for the elderly Frau von Arnim, a newly released German P.O.W., converge at a pub near a Royal Air Force base in Windyedge, Scotland, at the same time that a mysterious German plane lands on the base. Like “Dear Justyce,” “The Enigma Game” includes characters from the author’s previous books - it takes place between the events of “The Pearl Thief” and “Code Name Verity” - but stands on its own.
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