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The poppy field / Deborah Carr.

by Carr, Deborah.

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HarperImpulse, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.

Nurses -- Fiction.

Letters -- Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.

France -- Fiction.

9780008412425 (trade pbk.)

391 p. ; 24 cm.

"Young nurse, Gemma, is struggling with the traumas she has witnessed through her job. Needing to escape from it all, Gemma agrees to help renovate a rundown farmhouse in Doullens, France, a town near the Somme. There, in a boarded-up cupboard, wrapped in old newspapers, is a tin that reveals the secret letters and heartache of Alice Le Breton, a young volunteer nurse who worked in a casualty clearing station near the front line. Set in the present day and during the horrifying years of the war, both woman discover deep down the strength and courage to carry on in even the most difficult of times. Through Alice’s words and her unfailing love for her sweetheart at the front, Gemma learns to truly live again."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

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