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The Brightwood Code

Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. She spent her nights memorizing secret connection codes to stay ahead of spying enemies, and her days connecting vital calls between platoons and bases and generals, all trying to survive — and win — a brutal war. Their lives were in Edda’s hands, and one day, in fateful seconds, everything went wrong.

Now, Edda is back in Washington, DC, working as an American Bell Telephone operator, the picture of respectability. But when her shift ends, Edda is barely hanging on, desperate to forget the circumstances that cut her time overseas short. When Edda receives a panicked phone call from someone who utters the fateful code word “Brightwood,” she has no choice but to confront her past. With precious few clues and help only from Theo, a young man bearing his own WWI scars, Edda races to uncover what secrets may have followed her across the ocean. In this timely and unforgettable historical mystery, bestselling author Monica Hesse sheds light on hidden history and the brutality of being a woman in a war built by men.

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"Hesse (They Went Left) skillfully portrays Edda’s heightened emotional state and post-traumatic stress, as well as her urgency to untangle a mystery and resolve her guilt. As Edda gathers clues and tracks down possible callers, her sympathetic boardinghouse neighbor Theo joins her search, which adds friendship and romantic tension that brightens her solitary existence. Narrative flashbacks to the harrowing WWI battle zone, interspersed throughout Edda’s richly drawn present day in D.C. and Baltimore (complete with marches for women’s suffrage), tease out the mystery in this worthwhile historical novel." — Publishers Weekly

Product Details

Recommended Age 14 and up
Author Monica Hesse
ISBN 0316045659
Publication Date May 14, 2024
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language English