Welcome to this week's Tuesday Teaser. The place where you can have a sneak peek at a book that has caught my eye. It won't necessarily be a new release but will be something exciting that I would like to read.
This weeks book is The Poppy Factory by Liz Kernow. It has been published in the US under the title All the Things we Lost. Published by Avon Books it is one of several interesting titles by this author.
Liz started writing fiction after a long career in newspaper and broadcast journalism, and is now the author of best-selling historical fiction which is published all over the world. She combines writing with spending time with her family, her artist husband, two grown-up daughters and three grandchildren.
Once again, I am surprised that I have not read any of her books as I am a big fan of historical fiction. I am looking forward to reading this book and I hope that you will join me.
The Blurb
With the end of the First World War, Rose is looking forward to welcoming home her beloved husband, Alfie, from the battlefields. But his return is not what Rose had expected. Traumatised by what he has seen, the Alfie who comes home is a different man to the one Rose married. As he struggles to cope with life in peacetime, Rose wrestles with temptation as the man she fell in love with seems lost forever.
Many years later, Jess returns from her final tour of Afghanistan. Haunted by nightmares from her time at the front, her longed-for homecoming is a disaster and she wonders if her life will ever be the same again. Can comfort come through her great-grandmother Rose's diaries?
For Jess and Rose, the realities of war have terrible consequences. Can the Poppy Factory, set up to help injured soldiers, rescue them both from the heartache of war?
A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee.
The Beginning
Chapter One
An uneasy silence fell as the plane lurched bumpily around a spiral holding pattern above Heathrow. England was somewhere below, shrouded in slate grey clouds. Even the lads had finally stopped talking.
On reaching safe airspace half an hour out of Camp Bastion, six long months of constant fear and tension had been released like a spring-loaded jack-in-the-box into an eruption of shouting singing and laughter. They'd bellowed loud boasts across the aisles detailing exactly what and how much they would drink on their first night of leave in six long dry months and bragged raucously about the sexual conquests they would make, forgetting that the two activities were usually incompatible. They'd embroidered ever more unlikely details about how they would spend their Long Overseas Allowance, the main bonus of the tour. And just a few of them, in quieter voices, had talked of family; parents and siblings, wives, girlfriends and children, the comfort of their own beds, and real, home-cooked food.
She'd come to tolerate and sometimes even enjoy the lads' banter, their insults and juvenile pranks, their lavatory humour. She knew now that it was just the way they got through; underneath they were thoughtful human beings with the same fears as anyone else. For all their piss-taking and petty squabbling, when everything kicked off, they'd gladly give their lives for each other. Some had even done so.
ISBN: 978 0007510481
Publisher: Avon Books
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