Wake [large print] / Anna Hope.
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TextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, 2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 363 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444821291 (hbk.)Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Repatriation of war dead -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Veterans' families -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction | Large print books | Women -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- FictionSummary: November, 1920. As the body of an unknown soldier makes its way home from the fields of northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a lowly job in the pensions office; and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to Ada's door, and with him opens a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and both mend and tear their hearts. In this shattering novel of intertwining lives, Anna Hope shows the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of a nation changed forever.
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November, 1920. As the body of an unknown soldier makes its way home from the fields of northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a lowly job in the pensions office; and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to Ada's door, and with him opens a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and both mend and tear their hearts. In this shattering novel of intertwining lives, Anna Hope shows the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of a nation changed forever.
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