The Warm Hands of Ghosts av Katherine Arden

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<p><b>World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise in this gripping and powerful historical novel from the bestselling author of <i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i>.</b><br><br><b><i>January 1918</i></b><i>. </i>Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie''s death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn''t quite make sense. Determined to find out more, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about ghosts moving among those still living and a strange inn-keeper whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could this have happened to Freddie - but if so, where is he?<br><br><b><i>November 1917</i></b><i>. </i>Freddie Iven awakens