Instead, because of his love for Amy, he joins up. Instead, she met Edward in secret, and that act of rebellion is a drop in the ocean sending ripples destined to change both of their lives forever.Įdward is against war and prepared to face his punishment as a conscientious objector. The daughter of Lady Constance Vanneck, she was expected to act with modesty and decorum at all times, to defer to her mother’s wishes and to marry well. She is heartbroken – but she is also determined to go to France and find him.īefore Amy met Edward, a shy schoolteacher and musician, she lived a dull and quiet life.
Her fiancé, Edward Haslam was posted as missing, presumed dead in August 1918. In the battlefields of northern France volunteers are working their way through the brutalised and still hazardous landscape, searching for the remains of the fallen.īack home in Blighty, countless families are coming to terms with the fact that their sons, husbands, brothers, boyfriends will never be coming home again. The guns of the Great War are silent and everything is getting back to normal after four years of absolute hell.
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