![]() Highlighting similarities in the women’s backgrounds, Wyllie provides a distinctive prism through which to view the period. ![]() “Among the thousands of books about Nazism,” writes Wyllie, “barely a handful focus on the wives of the leading figures in Hitler’s regime.” Redressing that imbalance, Wyllie tells the stories of the wives of Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and others, charting the trajectory of each from first becoming involved in the movement through the war and beyond, into “the postwar twilight of denial and delusion”. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany Razor-sharp, astutely observed and acerbically funny. In the hospital, Bunny clashes with the doctors, makes wicked observations on her fellow patients and writes hilariously about the hospital’s creative writing class. As the novel spools back in time, we follow Bunny’s journey from accomplished writer to psychiatric patient, by way of her best friend’s death and flashbacks to her childhood. ![]() ![]() She is in hospital following a New Year’s Eve breakdown after months of depression. Kirshenbaum’s seventh novel opens with the protagonist, Bunny, sitting on a bench in a psychiatric ward awaiting the arrival of a therapy dog that never appears. ![]()
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