My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young

Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight. While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead? Buy My Dear I Wanted to Tell You on Waterstones.com: http://bit.ly/evSa7Z

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[lindasmiley1]

A fabulous book. I just finished it an hour ago. If you are looking for a book written with a wonderful, fresh style, choose this one. Not the same old going over of First World War--and the style is part of the freshness. Need a gift for a hungry reader? This is the one!