5/24/2023 0 Comments The poppy wife![]() ![]() The Poppy Wife is a stunning story moving between two timelines. Yet as long as Francis remains listed as MIA, neither officially dead or alive, perhaps he, and Edie, have cause to hope. So, as Harry travels the French countryside photographing graves for mourning relatives in England, he searches for his brother’s resting place. Harry has never doubted his older brother died that day in the mud of Ypres, he saw the bullets rip through his body on the battlefield. Unable to ignore the possibility her husband somehow survived the war, Edie travels to France in search of answers. ![]() There is no note with the photo, in which Edie thinks Francis looks much older than when she saw him last just months before he was declared missing in action, and only a blurred French postmark provides any clues as to its origin. Three years after the end of the Great War, Edie receives a photograph of her husband in the mail. Status: Read October 2019, Simon & Schuster AUĪ story of love, loss, guilt, and hope, The Poppy Wife is a moving and poignant debut from Caroline Scott. Published: November 1st 2019, Simon & Schuster ![]()
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