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    The Poppy Field
    The Poppy Field
    The Poppy Field
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Poppy Field

    Written by Deborah Carr

    Narrated by Stephanie Beattie

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    About this audiobook

    ‘A beautiful, heartbreaking novel of war and loss and the resilience of the human spirit’ Rosemary, Netgalley Reader

    The USA Today bestseller!

    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 women 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.

    This epic historical novel will take your breath away.

    Readers are falling in love with The Poppy Field:

    ‘Both heartbreaking and full of hope and happiness’ Pam, Goodreads

    ‘Exceptional’ Cassie’s Books

    ‘A beautifully written, highly enjoyable read’ Nicki’s Book Blog

    ‘One to watch’ Good Housekeeping

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJan 23, 2020
    ISBN9780008385163
    The Poppy Field
    Author

    Deborah Carr

    Deborah Carr lives on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands with her husband and three rescue dogs. She became interested in books set in WW1 when researching her great-grandfather's time as a cavalryman in the 17th 21st Lancers. She is one third of the Blonde Plotters writing group and was Deputy Editor on the online review site, Novelicious.com for seven years.

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    • 4/5
      I love a good dual timeline story and that's what I got with The Poppy Field. Gemma is a trauma nurse in Brighton but a tragedy has led her to France, to a farmhouse that her father wants her to help renovate. It's near the Somme and this leads in nicely to the other story, that of Nurse Alice le Breton, who left her home in Jersey to work in the Casualty Clearing Stations in the area during the First World War.Gemma finds Alice's letters and reads them during her time in France, alongside Tom, the builder she meets and who she asks to help with the farmhouse. I liked Gemma very much. She has to learn to be happy again, but it's a struggle for her and she doesn't know what her place in the world might be. Reading Alice's thoughts, and of the atrocities that took place 100 years in the past, aids her recovery somehow.But whereas I liked Gemma, I loved Alice. I thought she was gutsy, clever and as independent as she could be, especially for the era she was living in, although it's well known that war changes all that is normal. Her story is moving and heartbreaking and by the end of the book I had shed a few tears.The scenes in 1916-1918 are vivid and I could imagine the horror of being so close to the Somme and to explosions, and the CCS where injured men were coming in faster than they could be dealt with. The one thing that slightly let the book down for me was that I didn't feel like the two strands were as closely woven together as they could perhaps have been, in that for much of the book it felt like two completely unrelated stories. I'm not sure how it could have been done differently but I'd just have liked more of a link. But it's only a minor issue and overall I found The Poppy Field to be a romantic, moving and haunting read and one which is ideal to read in the year that marks 100 years since the end of the war that should have ended all wars.