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Author Scott, Caroline, author.

Title The poppy wife : a novel of the Great War / Caroline Scott.

Publisher New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019.

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 Superior adult paperbacks  PB-Inspirational SCO    IN TRANSIT +1 HOLD
 Washburn adult fiction  FIC SCO    AVAILABLE
Edition First U.S. edition.
Descript 423 pages, 11 pages ; 21 cm.
Note "Originally published as The Photographer of the Lost in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Simon & Schuster UK"--Title page version.
Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
Includes "Reading group guide" (pages 8-11).
Summary "1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie's husband Francis is still missing. Francis is presumed to have been killed in action, but Edie knows he is alive. Harry, Francis' brother, was there the day Francis went missing in Ypres. And like Edie, he's hopeful Francis is living somewhere in France, lost and confused. Hired by grieving families in need of closure, Harry returns to the Western Front to photograph soldiers' graves. As he travels through France gathering news for British wives and mothers, he searches for evidence his own brother is still alive. When Edie receives a mysterious photograph that she believes was taken by Francis, she is more certain than ever he isn't dead. Edie embarks on her own journey in the hope of finding some trace of her husband. Is he truly gone, or could he still be alive? And if he is, why hasn't he come home? As Harry and Edie's paths converge, they get closer to the truth about Francis and, as they do, are soon faced with the life-changing impact of the answers they discover. An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history--those years after the war that were filled with the unknown--The Poppy Wife tells the story of the thousands of soldiers who were lost amid the chaos and ruins in battle-scarred France; and the even greater number of men and women hoping to find them again."--Amazon.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Missing in action -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Genre Christian fiction.
Religious fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN/ISSN 0062955322 (trade paperback)
9780062955326 (trade paperback)