A dual time line story, we have Julia in 2019, who is a soft wear developer, a wife and mother with her own business. Pamela, her grandmother, is in 1943. She is a mathematician with a place at Oxford but goes to work in Bletchley for the war years.

This dragged for me from the start. Both women were very naïve. Julia, a successful, intelligent woman couldn't see what was staring her in the face. Pamela was a bit one dimensional. I never really got immersed in her story. The love story wasn't very interesting. None of the characters were fleshed out enough. We didn't get to know enough about them to care about them.
I would have d a lot more about Bletchley as I find it a fascinating piece of history and it's one of the main reasons I was drawn to the book. Instead we get too much about Julia's job, way more than we needed.

Having thoroughly enjoyed this author's last book I was expecting great things. Unfortunately it missed the mark for me.

Thanks to HQ Digital and Netgalley for an early copy of this book.netgalley27 s Karren Sandercock 1,000 243

Pamela Jackson is about to finish school in 1942, she’s extremely smart and she receives an offer to attend Oxford University. She puts this on hold due to the war and Pamela’s interviewed to be a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and she joins the Wrens. Here she meets Clarissa Morton, Norah Clarke, Edwin Denham and Frank Miller. One of the men is extremely friendly and charming to Pamela, and then she begins to have second thoughts about him, his loyalty to England and has he been lying to her?

Julia has been married to Marc for fifteen years, they have two sons and she runs her own IT company. Julia’s busy juggling her work, two children, and their after school actives. Her husband Marc has always been negative about her career, he doesn’t help her with daily tasks at home, and he’s become very distant. Her brother Bob is cleaning out his house, he gives Julia photos of their grandmother and she worked at the English country house called Bletchley Park. Julia’s grandmother never spoke about what she did during the war years, with her being good a math and languages, and it makes sense to Julia why her grandmother was given the opportunity.

Julia discovers what her grandmother did at Bletchley Park, from having to sign the official secrets act, not being able to speak to anyone about her work, using the huge digital electronic computer called Colossus, and how being able to decipher the German messages, reduced the length of the war by several years. Julia gains strength from her grandmother’s experiences, it helps her deal with the problems in her own life, to keep going during the tough times, and she defiantly takes after her grandmother.

The Girl from Bletchley Park is a dual timeline story about two intelligent women, and I found reading about Bletchley Park fascinating, I d the two main female characters of Pamela and Julia, and I despised Marc's character. A slightly different writing style and story line to Kathleen McGurl's previous books, a nice change, thanks to NetGalley for my copy, and five stars from me.
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There is a continuing fascination with the work carried out at Bletchley Park during World War 2, work which we now know proved of great significance to the war effort. The author takes us “behind the scenes” at Bletchley Park through the story of Pamela, a promising student of mathematics who is persuaded to defer her place at university and instead put her skills to work in the service of her country. During her time at Bletchley Park, Pamela makes friendships that will last a lifetime but also learns in the most dramatic way possible that not everyone is quite what they seem, the author deftly playing with the reader’s doubts and suspicions.

Interwoven with Pamela’s experiences is the present day story of Julia, Pamela’s granddaughter. As the book progresses the similarities between the situations the two women face become increasingly apparent. For example, a neat touch is that Julia runs her own IT business whilst Pamela worked on what could be considered an early version of a computer. In different ways, both Pamela and Julia experience betrayal by those they have come to trust but also find help from unexpected quarters. Along the way ties of friendship and affection are tested and both women have to summon up all their strength to protect those they care about.

I really d the way Julia’s relationship with her two sons, Oscar and Ryan, was portrayed and how they progress from being stroppy teenagers to showing signs of becoming fine young men. Julia’s brother, Bob, and Drew, the husband of Julia’s business partner, act as counterpoints to other less than admirable examples of the male species. And, in the earlier timeline, Clarissa proves a steadfast friend to Pamela whose warnings, as it turns out, Pamela would have done well to heed.

The Girl from Bletchley Park will appeal to fans of dual timeline stories with an element of mystery, and those with an interest in the contribution, often largely unsung, of women to the war effort.advance-review-copy historical-fiction netgalley ...more19 s1 comment Kellie O'Connor286 136

4 Star rating for the present day ( 2019)
5 Star rating for the past (1942-1945)

I really enjoyed this book, I know that it has mixed ratings on Goodreads but I didn't read any of it, I will once I finish my review of it!! I truly enjoy Kathleen McGurls' writing style and I think this is the seventh one that I've read and loved them all!! They're so very different from each other which I think is great! My brother gave me this book to learn about Bletchley Park during WW2 and I learned a lot. I read a book called The Bletchley Women by Patricia Adrian before I received this one and both are fantastic!! What I didn't learn from one book, I learned from the other which is wonderful because I enjoy learning new things
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