The warm hands of ghosts
Arden, Katherine2024
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January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform - but something doesn't quite make sense. Determined to find out more, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about ghosts moving among those still living and a strange inn-keeper whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could this have happened to Freddie - but if so, where is he? November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.
Main title:
The warm hands of ghosts / Katherine Arden.
Author:
Arden, Katherine, author
Imprint:
London : Century, 2024.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529920031 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
3744468