The Poppy Girls av Margaret Dickinson

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<p><b><i>The Poppy Girls</i> is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.</b><br><br>Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive . . .<br><br>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. <br><br>Nothing could hav