“The Lost Girls of Paris” is a novel of historical fiction that weaves two stories together to look at the brave and courageous women of the SOE and their treatment by the British government. The SOE was a British operation created during WWII to disrupt the progress of German Army in such ways as blowing up bridges, destroying train tracks etc. While the women, for the most part, were to be telegraph operators they often ended up doing much more than that and often much more dangerous work. I struggled with two aspects of this book. The first was the premise of the story, that of a woman finding what appeared to be an abandoned suitcase in a train station, opens the suitcase and then actually takes photographs out of it. This seemed like a real stretch for me, who would steal photographs from someone else’s suitcase? The second thing that I found was somewhat disappointing was that the book seemed very light on history. It seemed like the author used a very broad brush historically without much historical detail. I was surprised by the very few historical references cited at the end of the book. Because of this it almost seemed that this should be classified more as Women’s Fiction (or "Chick lit"), than historical fiction. I think if I had known that up front I would have approached the book differently. That being said, I enjoyed “The Lost Girls of Paris” exploration this very interesting British government operation which until very recently was unknown to me. And regardless of my hesitation, I was thoroughly engaged in the book and the intersecting journeys of the main characters kept me reading well into the night! No doubt, Pam Jenoff is a gifted storyteller! I was honored to receive a free copy of the book by NetGalley and the Publisher, HARLEQUIN – Trade Publishing in exchange for an honest review.