The Memoirs of Ellie Warburton - Softcover

Marlow, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783335874 ISBN 13: 9781783335879

Publisher: Acorn Books, 2014

Synopsis

This well written, poignant, fast-paced novel focuses on what women did in the Great War that turned Europe upside down and devastated so many millions of lives. It follows the path that leads Ellie Warburton from a curiously isolated, upper class childhood in the wilds of north Lancashire, to pre-war campaigning as a non-militant suffragette, to her wartime role as mobile kitchen and ambulance driver in Flanders' bloody fields. The youngest of "the three beautiful Warburton sisters," Ellie is idealistic, romantically minded, yet determined to make her mark in the world. The eldest sister Matty is ambitiously self-centred. While she cares deeply for suffering humanity en masse, she has no understanding of individual emotion. Vicky is a born hedonist and while similarly self-centred, she radiates charm, effortlessly drawing people, notably men, into her web. Both, particularly Vicky, affect Ellie's life. Virtually all the men in their lives went to war. They raised companies, served as

About this edition

• Publisher: Acorn Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783335874
• ISBN 13: 9781783335879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284