Wake

Author Anna Hope
Narrator Anna Hope
Publisher Transworld
Run Time 10 hours and 34 minutes
Format Audio
Genre First World War fiction, Historical fiction.

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What to expect

Five Days in November, 1920:
As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts.

A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever

Critics Review

A compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways – small, brave or commonplace – that keep us going. It touches feelings we know, and settings – dance halls, war front, queues outside the grocer – that we don’t. I loved it.

Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY

A tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for.

Chris Cleave, author of THE OTHER HAND

Wake is powerful and humane; a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope’s characters are so real; flawed and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling.

Sadie Jones, author of THE OUTCAST

Superb … beautifully crafted

Irish Times

A moving novel about the aftershock of the 1914-1918 conflict. … unlikely many will prove better than Anna Hope’s Wake

Sunday Times

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