The Poppy Factory
By: Liz Trenow
Publisher: Avon; AVON, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780007510481; 9780007510498
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Counseling of; Women veterans; Grandmothers; Fiction; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Poppy Factory (Firm); Soldiers; Veterans; Rehabilitation
Description: A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. 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?