The Poppy Field by Deborah Carr

The Poppy Field by Deborah Carr is a beautiful love story, set up in France and Britain.

Gemma and her family inherited a house where a cousin of her dad spent a lot of time there, if we consider that he left the house only when he was 98 years.

Gemma was sent by her father in loco for trying to see what kind of work of restoration the house needed. In their ideas, the house, once restored would have been sold.

Gemma finds the place lovely and discovers a new friend and great helper, de fact he does all the work of restoration at the house, in Tom. Gemma works in a traums unit and she doesn't still know that also Tom suffered an important injury.

Once, they discover while working a bunch of letters from a remote past from a certain Alice Le Breton.

We are in 1916 when Alice, a young british girl in the VAD works in a french camp. She made friendship with Mary Jones another nurse, they are both volunteers,  and they made friendship while they were reaching their camp.

War presents a lot of horrors and sometimes a scenario pretty bad.

One day, Alice helps Captain Woodhall. Bad head injury, the captain will recover soon.  

They will fall in love, but at that times it wasn't so simple as you will see.

Why the Poppy Field?

Let me add that when I was little I loved poppies, and that was why I decided to read this book. Intrigued by the plot and poppies.

We had and we have a lot of poppies in our fields. As a kid I loved to play with them all the times in our fields. Red, bright color, they are sunny and funny.

In that french area there were a lot of poppy fields and this romantic vision will be for both the protagonists a romantic start for an apparent, in the case of Alice, new life.

The first flower donated by Edward Woodhall to Alice was in fact a poppy flower.

Enjoy this book; it is a

historical, but at the same time contemporary novel with more than a touch of modern and old-fashioned romanticism.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori