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The Poppy Girls by Margaret Dickinson (Paperback, 2018)

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By Margaret Dickinson. Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five.

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The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson. Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914 and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father's friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her. Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice's brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer. Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter. Moving their unit close to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger. But even amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire, the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.

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PublisherPan Macmillan

ISBN-139781509851461

eBay Product ID (ePID)14046574257

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Book TitleThe Poppy Girls

AuthorMargaret Dickinson

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicGenealogy, World War I

Publication Year2018

Number of Pages528 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height196mm

Item Width130mm

Item Weight346g

Additional Product Features

Title_AuthorMargaret Dickinson

Series TitleThe Maitland Trilogy

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by karen_louise_2000
15 May, 2019
A great read!
Had the second volume in this trilogy bought for me as a present. So I had to get this one to read first, a great book at a great price - have bought from before and would recommend to anyone to source an otherwise ‘hard to find’ book.
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by russelmarti9
02 Sep, 2024
Wife has just discovered Margaret Dickin...
Wife has just discovered Margaret Dickinson. I seem to be buying a lot of her books. Good historical background to a typical 'holiday read 'type of book.
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by alime-62
02 Mar, 2025
Loved it!
Very easy reading, difficult to put it down. Adventures of four people, different social background helping wounded during WWI. Can't wait to read the next two books in the series
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by flothefisio20
20 May, 2020
Easy to But on Line
To buy a new book in a shop means I have to go into town, park or get on a bus. this is so much easier and clean and not heavy to carry. Interesting story. M Dickinson always a good read. Have read most of hers.
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by heletanne6
07 Apr, 2021
The Poppy Girls
Brilliant book. A really good read and it had me hooked from the beginning until the end. Very enjoyable.
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by lynnedis1
06 Mar, 2019
Good interesting book as always
Very good read and well written. The author is a lovely lady and every book is brilliant!
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by batchelor99
28 Apr, 2021
Book
This was a lovely book.
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by sammy_olive
21 Sep, 2022
Lovely condition
Not read it yet as needed it to read before I read the 2 others in the trilogy that I had been given.
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by suing_33
05 Jun, 2019
Loved the story
Excellent gripping book!
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by pamela4351
14 Nov, 2018
Excellent read
Very happy with this book,
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