In WWI France, an English nurse and German POW doctor share a forbidden love later pieced together from an artist’s secret drawings.
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In WWI France, an English nurse and German POW doctor share a forbidden love later pieced together from an artist’s secret drawings.
📅Releases September 29, 2026
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The love story of the year: a breathtaking new novel from the author of global bestsellers The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. A tale of love between enemies behind the lines of WW1 and the Australian artist who captures their secret. This is a story about desire. France, 1915. An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded i...
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Sexual content
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Central forbidden nurse-doctor romance; sensual, visceral desire emphasized
Violence & gore
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WWI medical ward setting; war wounds and wartime peril expected
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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WWI enemy-lines backdrop; suffragette character and wartime politics
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Prisoner-of-war captivity and wartime suffering on a medical ward
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