UK Writer
Mary Hooper Poppy Allen & Unwin 2014 $19.99hb 271pp ISBN 978 1 4088 2762 8
Themes: Class system, UK/ Historical novels/ Love
stories/ VADS/ World War 1 1914-1918
If you are working as a parlour maid in a grand
country house at the beginning of World War 1 the last thing you should do is
to fall in love with the son of the house who is about to leave for the
Battlefields of France. Mary Hooper has written many (many) books about feisty
young women facing similar problems through the centuries but such is her skill
as a writer that we believe in and sympathise with them all, making this yet
another book by this writer to be cherished. The historical background to the
story and the nursing of the severely injured soldiers is, of necessity,
sometimes hard to read but Poppy is staunch and unflappable. As the book neared
its end with so many ties and tangles in the plot to be unravelled it was
obvious it simply could not really end there and so I was glad to see a sequel
- Poppy in the field will be published in mid 2015.
Year 9 up/ Age 13 up
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