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I absolutely loved it!' \u003c\/b\u003eRuth Hogan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper of Lost Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eCharming, original and beautifully researched' \u003c\/b\u003eRachel Hore, author of \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Spy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eWhen the men leave for the Western Front, Peggy and her friends must shoulder the burden at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she moves between her narrowboat full of memories and the demands of the bookbindery where she works, Peggy’s dreams of escaping for a new life feel ever more remote.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the war brings people together in unexpected ways. 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France, 1915. An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later.   At first the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can’t look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell?In this luminous tale of hope in the midst of darkness, Pip Williams expands the world of her bestselling novels, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. 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