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If The Women stayed with you because it put women's experiences of war, friendship, trauma and survival at the centre of history, these novels explore similar emotional territory.
If you want another Kristin Hannah story about women at war
Kristin Hannah
Why Matchbook recommends it: Two sisters experience occupation and resistance differently in a deeply emotional story about courage, survival and what war asks of ordinary women.
If you loved women doing dangerous work
Kate Quinn
Why Matchbook recommends it: Female espionage, wartime courage and the lasting consequences of conflict connect women's experiences across two eras.
If friendship was what stayed with you
Kate Quinn
Why Matchbook recommends it: Three women working at Bletchley Park form complicated bonds while secrecy, war and betrayal reshape their lives.
If you want another formidable woman in wartime
Kate Quinn
Why Matchbook recommends it: A female sniper's extraordinary role in WWII puts a woman's skill, resilience and complicated humanity at the centre of military history.
If you want women's perspectives across the conflict
Martha Hall Kelly
Why Matchbook recommends it: Multiple women's lives intersect with the horrors of WWII in a story about survival, responsibility and resilience.
If you loved courage outside the battlefield
Kristin Harmel
Why Matchbook recommends it: Resistance work and forged documents show how seemingly ordinary skills become acts of extraordinary courage during occupation.
If you want another emotional past-and-present story
Kelly Rimmer
Why Matchbook recommends it: Family history and wartime Poland connect generations through love, loss and secrets carried long after the conflict ends.
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