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In Love and War
- Author
- Liz Trenow
- Narrator
- Katie Scarfe
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 25 January 2018
- Run Time
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
From the bestselling author of The Poppy Factory comes this moving story that brings together a group of women in ways they could never have imagined.
July, 1919. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt, three women arrive at the end of the war, searching for traces of the men they have loved and lost to the battlefields of Ypres in Belgium.
Ruby is just twenty-one, a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband. Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America, convinced her brother is in fact still alive. Then there’s Martha, and her son Otto, who are not all they seem to be . . .
The three women in Liz Trenow’s In Love and War may have very different backgrounds, but they are united in their search for reconciliation: to resolve themselves to what the war took from them, but also to what life might still promise for the future . . .
Critics Review
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The aftermath of war can be ferocious. This gentle and thoughtful story concentrates on the positives, without ignoring the destruction and pain of an epic conflict
Daily Mail
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Dinah Jefferies
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Emotional and uplifting
Essex Life
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Details
- Author
- Liz Trenow
- Narrator
- Katie Scarfe
- Duration
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9781509882595
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Historical romance, Historical fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Family saga / generational saga fiction, First World War fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: sense of place
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of The Poppy Factory comes this moving story that brings together a group of women in ways they could never have imagined.July, 1919. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt, three women arrive at the end of the war, searching for traces of the men they have loved and lost to the battlefields of Ypres in Belgium.Ruby is just twenty-one, a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband. Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America, convinced her brother is in fact still alive. Then there’s Martha, and her son Otto, who are not all they seem to be . . .The three women in Liz Trenow’s In Love and War may have very different backgrounds, but they are united in their search for reconciliation: to resolve themselves to what the war took from them, but also to what life might still promise for the future . . .
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