Around the World Audiobook Giveaway - City of Women by David Gillman

I am happy to announce Giveaway #2 for the Around the World in 52 Books Challenge.  This time I'm posting an audiobook, thanks to the generosity of the people at Penguin Audio. 

The book is City of Women by David R. Gillham, a historical novel about the women living in Berlin during World War II.  I got a chance to read the eBook through the Penguin First Flights program, and enjoyed it a great deal.  (You can read my review, posted in early July, if you want to know my thoughts on the book.)

Here is the publisher summary:

Who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? 
It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.
Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is a Jew.

But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets.

A high ranking SS officer and his family move down the hall and Sigrid finds herself pulled into their orbit.  A young woman doing her duty-year is out of excuses before Sigrid can even ask her any questions.  And then there’s the blind man selling pencils on the corner, whose eyes Sigrid can feel following her from behind the darkness of his goggles.

Soon Sigrid is embroiled in a world she knew nothing about, and as her eyes open to the reality around her, the carefully constructed fortress of solitude she has built over the years begins to collapse. She must choose to act on what is right and what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two. 

In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.

The contest is open to anyone living in the USA.  You do not have to be a part of the Around the World reading challenge.  Just leave a comment up until midnight on Saturday, August 4, and I will draw one lucky name.