The warm hands of ghosts / Katherine Arden.
By: Arden, Katherine.
Publisher: London : Century, 2024Description: 400 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529920031 (hbk.) :; 1529920035 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction | Fantasy | Fantasy | Fantasy | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction.Summary: 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.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Adult book | Haydock Library Fantasy | Issued | 28/05/2024 | 38055400026854 | |||
Adult book | Newton-le-Willows Library Fantasy | Available | 38055400026855 |
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.