Life of Objects, the

A young Irish woman takes an opportunity to get out of her dead-end life and parents she doesn't feel supported by. Trouble is that opportunity takes her to 1939 Germany, where the plan is for her to make lace for a wealthy couple, one of whom may be of Jewish ancestry.

The story sounds interesting enough, but I put the book down a little over halfway through. Perhaps the problem is that the narrator's personality doesn't come through, or she's just dull.