The Warm Hands of Ghosts

NATIONAL BESTSELLER &bull, During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale. &ldquo,A wonderful clash of fire and ice&mdash,a book you won&rsquo,t want to let go of.&rdquo,&mdash,Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander &ldquo,Spectacular&mdash,a tour de force, wonderful and deep and haunting.&rdquo,&mdash,Naomi Novik, author of A Deadly Education ONE OF BOOKPAGE&rsquo,S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie&rsquo,s death in combat, along with his personal effects&mdash,but something doesn&rsquo,t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something&mdash,or someone&mdash,else? November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their w
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