The Poppy Girls
- Author Margaret Dickinson
- Narrator Kate Rawson
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 12 hours and 38 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Family life fiction, First World War fiction, Generational sagas, Historical fiction, Historical romance.
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What to expect
The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.
Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive . . .
Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother’s wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914 and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father’s friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her. Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice’s brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer.
Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter. Moving their unit close to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger. But, even amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire, the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.
Fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin will love The Poppy Girls. Continue the story of the Maitland family with The Brooklands Girls.
Critics Review
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Queen of Saga
Daily Express -
An outstanding story of love, courage and family love . . . told by an author who knows how to touch your heart
Mary Wood, author of The Jam Factory Girls
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