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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLast Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb · 400 pages
1914
Jean Echenoz · 119 pages
Five Frenchmen go off to war, including two brothers who leave behind Blanche, a woman they both love, who longs to find out whether either one will be coming home to her.
Nightingale
Fiona McIntosh · 416 pages
A Very Long Engagement
Sebastien Japrisot · 327 pages
My French Whore
Gene Wilder · 179 pages
Paul Peachy, a private serving in the trenches of World War I France, is called upon to interrogate the infamous German spy Harry Stroller. The following day, Peachy is captured by the enemy and, in desperation, decides to impersonate Stroller. However, he is always aware that discovery must be around the corner.
The Storms of War
Kate Williams · 514 pages
In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood, and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and
Birds of a Feather
Jacqueline Winspear · 336 pages
The Wild Rose
Jennifer Donnelly · 623 pages
In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
Rilla of Ingleside
L.M. Montgomery · 277 pages
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett · 892 pages
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian b
Somewhere in France
Jennifer Robson · 400 pages
"Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford, has struggled against both her mother's expectations and the restrictions early 20th-century British society imposes upon women of "gentle breeding". Lilly longs to make a difference, to have a life of substance and meaning. Only one person other than her beloved brother Edward ever listened to what she really wanted-Robert Fraser, Edward's best friend. But that wa
Not So Quiet...
Helen Zenna Smith · 239 pages
"...Offers a scathing firsthand account of war from the point of view of women actively engaged in it. Helen Zenna Smith and her companions are volunteer ambulance drivers. They've actually paid for the privilege of serving at the French frontlines, seemingly so their upperclass mothers may brag about who has given up the most for the war effort. The bite of the novel comes from Smith's outrage at
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton · 192 pages
Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old me
Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates
Jean Little · 235 pages
In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
Deafening
Frances Itani · 378 pages
Sent to a school for the deaf, Grania O'Neill meets a hearing man, and together they create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. Shortly after their marriage, he leaves for the battlefields of Flanders, and the couple are drawn into events that will change the world forever. Originally published: New York: Atlantic Mo.
The Bookbinder
Pip Williams · 437 pages
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks · 483 pages
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale.Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love aff
Flambards in Summer
K.M. Peyton · 183 pages
Christina returns to Flambards in 1916, only to find the estate overgrown, deserted, and desolate. With the First World War still raging and most of the men she knows absent, Christina decides to use her inheritance to return the manor to its former glory. But when her plans are well underway, a familiar face appears at her door, throwing everything into confusion. 3rd book in the Flambards series
The Promise
Lesley Pearse · 499 pages
On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There, a tragic accident brings her face to face with Etienne - a man from her past she's never quite
A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie · 359 pages
July 1914. A young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land. She picks up a fig and holds it to her nose. Around her is a maze of broken columns, taller than the tallest of men. Nearby is the familiar lean form of her father's old friend, Tahsin Bey, an archaeologist. Viv is about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure and the ecstasy of love