Flanders - Tapa blanda

It is 1911. At sixteen, Poppy is becoming a woman herself, and she can appreciate that the Suffragette Movement seems to promise a fairer future for all women. Then in 1914 The First World War breaks out and brings catastrophic loss and suffering. Poppy's life changes forever as the old certainties are swept away forever. However, she volunteers to work as an ambulance driver at the front in Flanders. There, amongst death and constant danger, she discovers a strange and unexpected liberation. She also meets a handsome war correspondent...

Claire Rayner, nurse, agony aunt and author was born in London in 1931. She married in 1957 and it was while her children were young that she began to write. She is also a tireless campaigner on many medical and social issues, including the long term care of the elderly. Her literary output comprises over eighty books including fiction and a broad range of medical matters. She now lives in Harrow with her husband.