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The Poppy Girls (The Maitland Trilogy) Book

The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive . . .Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother’s wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914 and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father’s friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her. Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice’s brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer.Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter. Moving their unit close to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger. But, even amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire, the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.Fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin will love The Poppy Girls. Continue the story of the Maitland family with The Brooklands Girls.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Pips Maitland wants to follow in her brother's footsteps and become a doctor, but her mother wishes her to settle down and raise a family. Pips is not keen on this idea but when she meets Giles Kendall, she thinks she may have found an acceptable suitor. However, the year is 1914 and the future is uncertain...Pips heads to Flanders Fields to offer her services as a nurse, while Giles is a doctor and also makes his way over the Channel. When they arrive, they are taken aback by the horrific sights but decide to move closer to the battles in order to offer quicker first aid. It soon becomes clear that Pips and Giles love can survive - and perhaps even thrive - even in the most terrible of locations.

  • BookDepository

    A powerful family saga set during World War I, from the bestselling author of The Buffer Girls.

  • 1509851461
  • 9781509851461
  • Margaret Dickinson
  • 8 February 2018
  • Pan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
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