Wake
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  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552779463
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
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Wake

A heartrending story of three women and the journey of the Unknown Warrior

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16 Jan 2014
Audiobook
16 Jan 2014
Paperback
2 Mar 2015
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Unfolding over five days leading up to 11 November, 1920, the international bestseller and prizewnning story of three women's lives and loves. For fans of PAT BARKER, MADELINE MILLER and MAGGIE O'FARRELL

The International prize-winning bestseller and Simon Mayo bookclub pick
'Powerful and humane' SADIE JONES, bestselling author of The Snakes
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Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives:

Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak.

Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover.

And Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home.

As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future - but can these three women ever let go of the past?
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Readers' love WAKE by Anna Hope:

'Beautifully, written, compelling, very moving' 4 ****
'Engrossing and illuminating' 5 *****
' If you like a relationships novel with war backdrop, hard to find better' 4 ****
'An amazing achievment' 5 *****
  • Published: 2 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9780552779463
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Anna Hope

Anna Hope was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, RADA, and Birkbeck College, London. She lives in East London. WAKE is her first novel.

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