The German Ward

byPip Williams

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A forbidden love. A forgotten artist. A wartime secret discovered many years later.

One sketch shows two hands. A man’s and a woman’s. They are back to back and almost touching…

France, 1915. War rages and enemy lines are clear, but in a hospital ward treating German prisoners of war Tilda, an English nurse, falls in love with Hugo, a German doctor. Their desire is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it might have gone unrecorded if not for a series of sketches found more than a century later.

For the woman who finds them, these sketches are tantalising fragments of a lost narrative that she is determined to piece together...

This breathtaking novel from the author of international bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, is about the complexity of desire in a time of war, but it is also about art and memory and the stories we choose to tell about the past.

The German Ward dares to be a love story with substance. ..It’s a must read title, on track to be my pick for book of the year.

The Australian

About Pip Williams

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is the author of the international number one bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and has been translated into over thirty languages. Pip's second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, was published in 2023.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529998993
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Price: £9.99
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