The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott

Was it so wrong to feel that she had been treated unfairly? That she'd been judged and damned and had not had the right to defend herself? I stayed up until 1am to finish this novel, set in 1921, following a veteran and a widow of World War I. It had shades of Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock, too: a vague menace stalking our main characters, who were trying to find peace in a Europe looking to neatly memorialize what had happened. The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott William Morrow Paperbacks, 2019 Review copy from publisher for blog tour Historical Fiction reading challenge I've mostly given up novels set in eitherWorld War I or World War II; I'd read so many that I was feeling like I was getting the same thing over and over. This is Caroline Scott's debut novel, and she manages to not only create a story with the hold-your-breath tension of a domestic thriller, but she also brilliantly (tearfully) evokes the terror and horror of trench combat. Edi