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My dear i wanted to tell you a novel

While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is completely out of their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men are dead?

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  • "My dear I wanted to tell you"@it

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  • "While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is completely out of their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men are dead?"@en
  • "The lives of two very different couples'an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart'are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. At eighteen years old, working-class Riley Purefoy and "posh" Nadine Waveney have promised each other the future, but when war erupts across Europe, everything they hold to be true is thrown into question. Dispatched to the trenches, Riley forges a bond of friendship with his charismatic commanding officer, Peter Locke, as they fight for their survival. Yet it is Locke's wife, Julia, who must cope with her husband's transformation into a distant shadow of the man she once knew. Meanwhile, Nadine and Riley's bonds are tested as well by a terrible injury and the imperfect rehabilitation that follows it, as both couples struggle to weather the storm of war that rages about them. Moving among Ypres, London, and Paris, this emotionally rich and evocative novel is both a powerful exploration of the lasting effects of war on those who fight'and those who don't'and a poignant testament to the enduring power of love."@en
  • "A story that intertwines the lives of two very different couples during World War I follows army soldier Riley as he fights for the love of Nadine despite a terrible injury, and Riley's commanding officer Peter Locke, who returns home from the war a bitter and scarred man."@en
  • "A story that intertwines the lives of two very different couples during World War I follows army soldier Riley as he fights for the love of Nadine despite a terrible injury, and Riley's commanding officer Peter Locke, who returns home from the war a bitter and scarred man."
  • "Londres, un peu avant la Grande Guerre. Deux enfants issus de milieux forts différents se rencontrent chez un voisin peintre et deviennent amis. Lorsque la guerre éclate, Riley s'engage sur un coup de tête. Cette séparation va leur faire prendre conscience des sentiments qu'ils éprouvent l'un pour l'autre.--[Memento]."
  • "London, April 1916, Riley Purefoy was walking across Kensington Gardens in the sun. He hadn't been in London for two years. It seemed very peculiar to him. There were no shells going off. No one was shooting. No gas-gong. It was quiet. There were women."@en
  • "Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, My dear I wanted to tell you is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight. While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises - but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?"@en
  • "On the day in 1907 that eleven-year-old Riley Purefoy meets Nadine Waveney, he notes the difference between their two families'his, working class; hers, wealthier and artistic'and vows to better himself. Nadine's mother likes Riley as a young boy, but when, a few years later, she detects the romance budding between the two, she fears for her daughter's future. Angry and humiliated, Riley enlists at the nearest recruiting station during the febrile first weeks of the First World War and ships for France. While Riley and his commanding officer, Peter Locke, fight for their country, their sanity and their survival in the trenches of Flanders, every day Peter's wife, Julia, undertakes ever more neurotic rituals to prepare for her beloved husband's return. Then when he does return on leave, she finds him distant, changed and damaged, beyond the scope of anything she can do. Nadine, only eighteen when the war starts, above all wants to make promises'but how can she when her future with Riley is completely out of her hands' Youthful passion is on their side, but their bond is tested by a terrible injury, and even more so by the imperfect rehabilitation that follows."@en
  • ""At eighteen years old, working-class Riley Purefoy and "posh" Nadine Waveney have promised each other the future, but when war erupts across Europe, everything they hold to be true is thrown into question. Dispatched to the trenches, Riley forges a bond of friendship with his charismatic commanding officer, Peter Locke, as they fight for their survival. Yet it is Locke's wife, Julia, who must cope with her husband's transformation into a distant shadow of the man she once knew. Meanwhile, Nadine and Riley's bonds are tested as well by a terrible injury and the imperfect rehabilitation that follows it, as both couples struggle to weather the storm of war that rages about them. Moving among Ypres, London, and Paris, this emotionally rich and evocative novel is both a powerful exploration of the lasting effects of war on those who fight--and those who don't--and a poignant testament to the enduring power of love" -- P. [4] of cover."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Love stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "L'inverno si era sbagliato : [romanzo]"
  • "L'inverno si era sbagliato"@it
  • "L'inverno si era sbagliato"
  • "My dear i wanted to tell you a novel"@en
  • "Mijn liefste"
  • "My dear I wanted to tell you"
  • "My dear I wanted to tell you"@en
  • "Je voulais te dire : roman"
  • "Je voulais te dire"
  • "My dear I wanted to tell you a novel"
  • "My dear i wanted to tell you"@en
  • "My dear, I wanted to tell you"
  • "Mijn liefste ik wil je vertellen"
  • "My dear I wanted to tell you : a novel"@en
  • "My dear I wanted to tell you : a novel"
  • "My dear, i wanted to tell you"

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