A Kiss From France
Susan Hughes
Two munitionettes' fates are intertwined in WW1.
- ISBN 9781781324035
- Published Jul 2015
- 203 x 133mm (288 pages)
Dangerous munitions work links two very different women in WWI Britain. Ambitious Lizzie Fenwick puts a note in a box of ammunition shells which triggers an exciting wartime romance. In the face of increasing casualty figures, patriotic Eunice Wilson is overcome with regret for shunning her conscripted husband.
Events soon mean Lizzie must make hard choices and accept that a less romantic future beckons. Meanwhile, Eunice attempts to cope with personal tragedy.
Peace returns, but with it comes the discovery of a betrayal which sets the two women on a potential collision course where they must confront everything they thought they knew about love and loyalty.
And let go of what they want to hold on to most.
Susan Hughes grew up near a small mining village in Northumberland. For as long as she can remember books have been a part of her life. When she didn’t have her nose in a book she was climbing trees, catching water boatmen from a nearby burn or go-carting in country lanes with the kids next door.
After University she worked in the City of London during the frenetic ‘Big Bang’ boom of financial de-regulation, before marriage and family life led to a desire for a change of gear. A move to the rural West Country enabled her to raise her sons near the coast, encouraged her to indulge her penchant for visiting country piles, while also keeping up her reading habit by patronising the local bookstore.
She became a writer almost by accident, after she found a handful of WWI silk postcards in a box of her grandmother’s possessions. The romantic greeting on one of these inspired her to weave a story around its imagined sender and recipient. It became her first novel,
A Kiss from France. She is now working on her second book.
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