Title: Wake
Description: Anna Hope's brilliant debut novel unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath. London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier...
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, History, Women, Veterans' families, Repatriation of war dead