The Bletchley Girls

Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy. - Daily Mail

An in-depth picture of life in Britain’s wartime intelligence centre…The result is fascinating, and is made all the more touching by the developing friendships between Dunlop and her interviewees. - Financial Times

Lively…in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women’s own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service. - New Statesman

Dunlop has interviewed some of those Bletchley women still alive and draws on one or two unpublished diaries. These have yielded some good stuff, especially on the particular intensity of wartime sexual relationships. - The Observer

Dunlop offers us glimpses of the women’s lives and expectations, their education, aspirations and personal anecdotes, how they coped with the aftermath of war and what became of them. The combined accounts make for a fascinating social document of women’s lives. - Sunday Express

The 15 extraordinary women interviewed for this book came from backgrounds as diverse as debutantes and factory workers. It’s an engrossing read that captures their wildly different experiences. - Choice Magazine

Tessa Dunlop’s The Bletchley Girls tells the story of 15 female veterans of ‘Station X’, all of whom Dunlop has interviewed at length. - The Guardian

Tessa Dunlop, author of The Bletchley Girls, documents the lives of 15 remarkable women who worked at The Park and are still alive to tell their stories. - Sunday Telegraph