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The Paris Peacemakers: The powerful tale of love and loss in the aftermath of World War One
By (Author) Flora Johnston
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
21st May 2024
18th April 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Hardback
384
Width 134mm, Height 216mm
Paris, 1919. Will the brittle pieces of Europe ever fit together againAs the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference getunderway, typist Stella Rutherford throw s herself into her work and the mixtureof glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape thegrief coming in waves for her brother Jack.Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troopsin France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men,including her fianc Rob.
Rob Campbell, profoundly changed by his time as a surgeon on the front line,has had little chance to lift his head from the incessant grind of the injured,dying and dead. If he did the ghosts of his teammates, the Scottish rugbyplayers who follow ed the same path into hell, would surely be waiting for him.
The Paris Peacemakers follows three Scots as they attempt to pick up the piecesof their lives while the fabric of Europe is stitched together for good or ill.
Flora Johnston worked for over twenty years in museums and heritageinterpretation, including at the National Museums of Scotland, which hasgreatly influenced the historical fiction she now writes. Her debut novel WhatYou Call Free was published by Ringwood Publishing. She studied at St.Andrews University and lives in Edinburgh.