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The Poppy Wife

By: Caroline Scott
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson, Chris Harper
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 Until she knows her husband’s fate, she cannot decide her own...
An epic debut novel of forbidden love, loss, and the shattered hearts left behind in the wake of World War I

1921. Families are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many survivors of the Great War have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis has not come home. He is considered ‘missing in action’, but when Edie receives a mysterious photograph taken by Francis in the post, hope flares. And so she begins to search.

Harry, Francis’s brother, fought alongside him. He too longs for Francis to be alive, so they can forgive each other for the last things they ever said. Both brothers shared a love of photography and it is that which brings Harry back to the Western Front. Hired by grieving families to photograph gravesites, as he travels through battle-scarred France gathering news for British wives and mothers, Harry also searches for evidence of his brother.

And as Harry and Edie’s paths converge, they get closer to a startling truth.

An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history, The Poppy Wife tells the story of the thousands of soldiers who were lost amid the chaos and ruins, and the even greater number of men and women desperate to find them again.©2019 Caroline Scott (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio Fiction Historical Fiction Marriage Heartfelt War Solider
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The middle of the book was a bit drawn out for me. Thought the story could have progressed a bit quicker.

Bit drawn out

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Amazing story which really helps to take you there
to See and Feel what they experienced.

Amazing Story

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That was a journey and a half! Descriptive writing throughout and yet at times, a little too much. However, you have to follow the journey and to find out the truth. It’s worth a listen to.

It’s a Journey

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This book tries to describe the loss and suffering of those left behind after WW1, in England and France. The author uses the technique of writing of times past ( the actual fighting), and the present time (Post WW1), , chopping and changing between time periods. This “modern” but confusing style, leaves the listener trying to both remember what happened in the past and, at the same time, work out what was supposed to be happening now. Different narrators read the voices of the men and women.

In short, a confusing, overwritten, drawn out story, that only frustrates the listener. A waste of time.

Appalling story of World War 1

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