In Love and War

July, 1919. The First World War is over. The war-torn area of Flanders near Ypres is no longer home to trenches or troops, but groups of tourists. Controversial battlefield tourism now drives busloads of people to witness first-hand where loved ones fell. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Poperinghe, three women have come to the battlefields to find a trace of men they have loved and lost. Ruby is just twenty-one, a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband. Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America, convinced her brother is in fact still alive and in France. Then there's Martha, and her son Otto, who are not all they seem to be . . . The three women in Liz Trenow's In Love and War may have very different backgrounds, but they are united in their search for reconciliation: to resolve themselves to what the war took from them, but also to what life might still promise for the future . . . Praise for The Silk Weaver by Liz Trenow:'I devoured it in two days and was gripped from start to finish. A fabulous book.' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Tea Planter's Wife'Brilliantly done. I really couldn't wait to get back to it.' Tracy Rees, author of Amy Snow