A review by readingwitherin
The Woman with No Name by Audrey Blake

medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The Woman with No Name is based on the true story of one courageous woman during WWII who helped save countless lives and kept the Nazis confused. 

Yvonne Rudellete's life has not gone the way she once thought it would, stuck in a loveless marriage, and with a daughter who is now grown she is ready to remake herself. She does that by joining the war effort and becoming one of Britain's first female sabotage agents. She uses the skills that they train her with, alongside what she has learned all her life to hide in plain sight, create distractions, and cause chaos to make life hard for the Nazis who have invaded France. With a crew of other agents, and French resistance fighters she really does set parts of France ablaze and saves countless lives in the process. 

Overall this book was good and interesting. I loved how we got to see a different side to WWII with a female agent and the resistance working together to sabotage the Nazis. I love spy and secret agent books and this one did not disappoint. It did drag at times especially towards the middle when it felt like we were just constantly waiting to hear anything from Britain, and then in the last quarter everything was just full steam ahead and things did not stop. Yvonne and several other people in this book are based on real people and you could tell when that was going on because of how much more detailed it got when it came to the sabotage schemes. 
I think this book will be great for people who enjoy reading about this time period and spies.