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The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

A wonderful clash of fire and ice--a book you won't want to let go of.--Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander

Spectacular--a tour de force, wonderful and deep and haunting.--Naomi Novik, author of A Deadly Education

ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something--or someone--else?

November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.

As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura's and Freddie's deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging--or better left behind entirely.
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ISBN 13 9780593128251
ISBN 10 0593128257
Title The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Author Katherine Arden
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2024-02-13
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.