Publisher's Synopsis
The First World War is over. The war-torn area of Flanders near Ypres is no longer home to troops, but groups of tourists. At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt, three women arrive, searching for traces of the men they have loved and lost. Ruby is just twenty-one, a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband. Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America, convinced her brother is in fact still alive. Then thereâ_Ts Martha, and her son Otto, who are not all they seem to beâ_¦
