Edie’s search begins in 1921 after she receives a photograph of her husband.
In Arras, near Vimy, we read about wives looking through tables laden with lost property, taken from the bodies of soldiers. The Poppy Wife is partially inspired by her family history. But, I had few choices as I came to the end of four weeks out of the store – in a land where places to buy books are few and far away – so I picked up The Poppy Wife and found it quite a fine novel.Ĭaroline Scott a freelance writer and historian specializing in Word War 1 and women’s history, with a PhD from Durham University. Born in the UK, Caroline currently resides in France. Sound like a soap opera? I wondered the same and almost put this book aside. Edie and Harry could perhaps now make a life together, but for the ghost of a possibility that Francis is still alive. Edie is the widow of Francis, and was a good friend to all of the brothers and to their mother. He is also seeking his brother, Francis, believed to have died and officially listed as missing. Harry Blythe is the only brother who survived the war, and he is now touring France as a photographer, commissioned to take pictures of the graves of soldiers for grieving relatives in England. It is also the story of Edie Blythe and Rachel West, two women who are seeking their missing husbands.
This is a story of men who went to war, and women left behind, some of whom went to France after the end of the war in search of men listed as missing, or to visit the grave of a loved one.Ĭhapters move between 19, revealing the lives of the Blythe brothers, Harry, Francis and Will. Just in time for Remembrance Day comes Caroline Scott’s new novel The Poppy Wife, a novel about the First World War.
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