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  Suggestions for Further Reading

  The following is a selective list of some of the books that inspired me as I was writing Somewhere in France. I have also included a brief list of websites that I found both reliable and informative.

  Nonfiction:

  The First World War by Stuart Robson

  Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War, edited by Margaret Higonnet

  The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson

  Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins

  The Roses of No Man’s Land by Lyn Macdonald

  Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter

  Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948 by Lucy Noakes

  Memoir:

  The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898–2009 by Harry Patch

  Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

  The War Diary of Clare Gass: 1915–1918 by Clare Gass

  Poetry:

  The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

  Collected Poems, 1908–1956 by Siegfried Sassoon

  Scars Upon My Heart: Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War, edited by Catherine Reilly

  Fiction:

  Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

  The Passing Bells Trilogy by Phillip Rock

  The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road) by Pat Barker

  The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

  Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

  The Wars by Timothy Findley

  Websites:

  The Long, Long Trail www.1914-1918.net

  The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

  The Last Tommy www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/last_tommy_gallery.shtml

  The Great War www.greatwar.co.uk

  This Intrepid Band greatwarnurses.blogspot.com

  The Western Front Association www.westernfrontassociation.com

  Edwardian Promenade www.edwardianpromenade.com

  Credits

  Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

  Cover photograph © 2013 by Richard Jenkins

  Map by Sam (The Mad Cartographer) Onderdonk

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. Copyright © 2014 by Jennifer Robson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub Edition © JANUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780062273468

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Robson, Jennifer, 1970–

  Somewhere in France / Jennifer Robson. — First edition.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-0-06-227345-1

  1. Social classes—Fiction. 2. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction. 3. Historical fiction. I. Title.

  PR9199.4.R634S66 2014

  813’.6—dc23

  2013016915

  13 14 15 16 17 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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