But the timeless story of love, loyalty, and honor will have appeal for readers of all interests. Scott’s bold novel, inspired by her own family history, is instantly appealing for historical fiction fans. It’s really not over for so many of them yet, is it?” one woman warns Edie in the disturbing resolution.

Scott pinballs this two-part odyssey between 1917, as Harry, Francis, and their youngest brother, Will, who falls first on the battlefield, change from swaggering soldiers to haggard war veterans, and 1921, when Edie and Harry close in on the grim search for answers to Francis’s fate. An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history, The Poppy Wife is an epic novel of forbidden love, loss and the shattered hearts left behind in the wake of the First World. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Poppy Wife. It became his mission and she supported him in it. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. An interesting couple of characters that the photographer came across was a man and his wife who had relocated to France so the man could recover soldiers hastily buried far afield and rebury them in proper military graveyards set aside in France. When Edie gets a picture of Francis in the mail in 1921, she questions if he could still be alive and sets out with Harry to find him-or his grave-in France. The Poppy Wife - Ebook written by Caroline Scott. Poppy Delevingne got cozy with Prince William’s godson during her star-studded 37th birthday party Wednesday night. Scott zeroes in on British woman Edie, whose husband, Francis, never came home, and the missing soldier’s younger brother Harry, who is haunted by memories of holding his wounded brother in his arms and the last words they spoke. Francis is presumed dead, but Edie believes he. British historian Scott debuts with an unsettling close-up take on the staggering losses to a family shattered by a 1917 Western Front conflict that left “eight thousand nameless men” on the battlefield. While many have been reunited with their loved ones in the wake of World War I, Edies husband has not come home.

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