A heart-breaking historical tale of love and hope set at the end of the Great War.

'Hopes unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittains classic memoirTestament of Youth' - New York Times

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three womens lives: Hettie whose wounded brother wont speak; Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover; and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her sons death, and is still waiting for him to come home. As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future but can these three women ever let go of the past?

ANNA HOPE was born in Manchester, and educated at Oxford University and RADA. The idea behindWakecame to her when she visited the Somme, where she was struck by the sight of so many rows of identical crosses, and wondered at the grief of the women they left behind. WAKE is her first novel.

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Unfolding over five days leading up to 11 November, 1920, a powerful debut telling of three women who have lost loved-ones, set against the journey of the Unknown Soldier from Northern France to the Cenotaph.