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Broken Faces: A romantic story of secrets, love, friendship and survival in the First World War Kindle Edition

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A spectacularly powerful book. BROOK COTTAGE BOOKS

1914. Lady Alexandra Baldwyn is stifled by her claustrophobic life of privilege at Somerton Hall. She is desperate to escape the confines of her family's stately home and do her bit for the war effort like her brother Charles and his best friend, Freddie Chevalier. She pleads with her parents to let her become a nurse in France, but her father refuses to sign the necessary papers and she must be content with driving ambulances in London.

Freddie is secretly in love with Charles's fiancée, Meredith Sutton. When Meredith discovers that Charles has been unfaithful to her, she races to Freddie’s home in Jersey for consolation. They vow to keep what happens between them a secret and it’s only when the two men are fighting for survival in the trenches of Northern France that Charles discovers their betrayal.

Heartbroken, Meredith joins the Voluntary Aid Detachment and is posted to nurse at a hospital in Amiens. When one of the men suffers a life-changing injury and is admitted to her ward she discovers that her heartache has only just begun. While Lexi reads a letter meant for Charles and ends up having to find a way to keep a little girl safe unsure if she's an orphan or if the child's father is someone close to home.

Spanning the 1914-18 war Broken Faces is the story of four friends and their fight for survival. It is ultimately a story of how love can triumph over adversity in the most unexpected way.

Praise for Deborah Carr's Broken Faces

One to Watch. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
Spent most of my weekend quite mesmerized by this lovely book. TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
Fans of Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will enjoy. BOOKMAD

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019G1FAE4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Green Shutter Books (December 15, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 859 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 487 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #387,832 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #879 in 20th Century Historical Romance eBooks
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I am a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical fiction and write for HarperCollins (One More Chapter). I was born and live in Jersey in the Channel Islands and am lucky enough to be able to set most of my books here.

My 2023 First World War novel, The Poppy Sisters was an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick. The Poppy Field and An Island at War set during the Nazi Occupation of Jersey were both USA TODAY bestsellers.

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by German forces in the Second World War. That history and the stories from family and friends I heard growing up also inspired me to write The Beekeeper's War and another novel set during that dark time in the island’s history, Neighbours at War.

My first historical, Broken Faces, was described by Good Housekeeping Magazine as ‘One to Watch’. I'm also the author behind the Mrs Boots trilogy inspired by another woman from Jersey, Florence Boot, the woman behind the Boots the Chemist empire.

I spend most days writing my books in my studio with at least one of my three rescue dogs snoring next to me.

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jmp

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023

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Wonderful characters trying to make the best of serving in WWI. Lots of emotions but they get through it all. Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018

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“Broken Faces” by Deborah Carr tells the story of Lady Alexandra Baldwyn “Lexi”, her brother Charles, his friend Freddie Chevalier, with whom Lexi is in love, and Charles’ fiancée, Meri. 1914 England was a difficult time. Charles and Meri were engaged to be married, but that didn’t stop Charles from one last fling with his mistress…where Meri found them together. Meri is heartbroken and breaks the engagement.

The war in France was raging and young men were joining up to fight the Huns. Freddie goes home to Jersey where he tends the farm with his father until he decides that he needs to help in the fight. Lexi just wants to contribute and volunteers, driving ambulances and delivering supplies in England. Meri joins the V.A.D. and is nursing in a field hospital in France. Charles is fighting in the trenches and is soon joined by Freddie. Freddie is wounded in the face and is evacuated to the field hospital where Meri is a nurse. Eventually Freddie ends up in a Facial Reconstruction Hospital in Amiens where everything possible is done to repair the damage done to his face.

I could just re-write the story in my review, because there are so many facets of this novel. However, I must say that reading this novel gave a true glimpse of what had to be the most horrible type of warfare. Human beings maimed and killed over a swath of land known as “no man’s land”, constant barrage of munitions, mud, filth, deprivation. This book follows these four young people as they come to grips with their lives during and after the war. With carnage and damage surrounding them, can they even think of going on with new lives.

I enjoyed the book from the historical viewpoint, but it was hard reading of the terrible injuries and the attempts of the men and women to overcome them.

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WWI Historical Romance

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019

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Although author's "Poppy Fields" book was my favorite, I did enjoy this one also. This involved more of the emotional aspects from the war injuries and its effects on self and relationships. Once again, it involves nursing with the setting mostly in France. Also detailed were the war strategies, allowing the reader to become directly in the midst of battles. There were several ongoing surprising themes and outcomes which kept one's interests. Romantic encounters were somewhat glossed over, to the point, of having to continue read to clarify consequences. But, it was a factual, overall clean read with a happier ending for those who enjoy historical romances.

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Cayla S.

Good story.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2019

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This book was okay, but it was dragging a bit in places. I was hoping for a tug at my heartstrings, but instead, I just didn't feel drawn into the story. Deborah Carr tells a good story and provides decent character development. I still felt like something was missing and I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it's just me.

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Jane

Well told story of Love and War

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020

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I really like stories of love during wartime. To me it means they didn’t give up, they believed that life would return to normal albeit a new normal.
This book was a love story, but also one of changing times. Did it take wars to force changes to ways of life. Would these changes have come about without the wars?
It is an easy read in one sense but quite unsettling in another. Read and find out for yourself.

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Glendagood

The atrocities of war

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2019

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Well I can't say it was a bad book because it was very well written. My problem was that there was chapter after chapter, in complete detail, of what the soldiers and horses endured during WW1, the Great War as they called it. I couldn't bear another book with these descriptions, so as I was reading the part about the battles I had to stop and just skimmed the rest of the book. I'm sorry, I've read more books on the civil war and WW1 and the atrocities of it that I just couldn't read any more. Let's not forget the millions of Jews that were murdered because of their religion in WW2. If you don't mind the descriptions and a little mixed up romance involved then this book is for you, but not for me. Thank you

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2022

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I loved the endings and where the various loose ends were clarified and resolved into place. An old grand romance throughout thick , thin and even thinner. People survive and sadly others do not but still life continues on. A definite must-read for old romantics young and old in years on earth...

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021

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Good character development, interesting plot, excellent historical integration. I can’t wait for another book by this author! A must read! Enjoy!

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christy

Hard to let go

Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2023

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Great book hard to put down

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Carnage and redemption

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2024

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I nearly gave up on this book as the early chapters describing the war from the trenches was so graphic that it was hard to read. The carnage that those poor souls witnessed and endured was unimaginable, however the author does a very expert job in portraying it for those of us not there.
Fortunately the book had the redeeming features of describing the ups and downs of the relationships of four good friends. A very good read.

maureen simmon

Broken faces

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2019

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Couldn't put this book down.
So poignant and beautiful even though it's set in a background of war and all if it's horrors.
The ending was just as I thought

JB Johnston

wow!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2016

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When I read the blurb for this book I was intrigued! I love novels set during this period in history. A time when so many young men were slaughtered on the battlefields of a war that tore apart so many lives. I was particularly interested in the fact that the story centres around the life changing wounds suffered by so many and the psychological effects of their injuries. Young men trying to rebuild shattered lives with shattered bodies.
While reading the book I found myself completely drawn into the era. The author introduces the wonderfully rich language of the First World War and at times I felt I was in an old black and white movie or an episode of Downtown Abbey. I just loved it! I do think that one of the most shocking things is the way the upper classes were so 'inconvenienced' by war and how many really didn't realise what the real impact to ordinary families was. They soon find out that war is indiscriminate and their lives are affected in more ways that they can imagine. Even in the trenches the class system seems to come into effect. Although on the battlefields, death does not recognise or care about class.

Freddie is such an interesting character. A young man who is so desperate to fight for his country, and like many young men, not realising the full horror of war until he is actually there. Freddie is such an honourable young man and despite falling in love with Meri, best friend Charles' girl, he protects her honour and his friendship with Charles who has broken Meri's heart and who initially can only be described as a bit of a cad! All the while, another is waiting in the sidelines and Freddie is to blind to see that a love has blossomed for him in the heart of someone else.

As I've said, I was interested in the way the book explored the injuries sustained by the soldiers. Some of the battle scenes are harrowing but of course they need to be. There is no nice way to describe the slaughter of war. DM Carr has written a spectacularly powerful book about young men who were expected to be heroes at a time when many of them were little more than boys, trying to grow up too fast in an effort to serve the country they loved so much. Obviously back then, disability and disfigurement were not met with the same compassion or advances in medicine as the more modern world offers. Without little or no aftercare, soldiers were just expected to get on with it. Many could not. And, waiting for them are the women who love them.

Broken Faces is an emotional, romantic and heart stopping book that often left me wanting to grieve alongside the characters, particularly Freddie, for the life that was no more. Freddie, like many soldiers of the time must face the fact that his life will never be the same again and he must come to terms with that. Charles himself is changed too by the horror of war and evolves into a richer and more likable character throughout the book but can still be infuriating at times. He too is hiding one or two secrets and trying to protect his family.

For me, one of the most interesting topics the book covers is the role that women played during the First World War. How many of us could have done the job of patching up young men straight off the battlefield without any prior experience, or driving lorries full of supplies to troops. Bravery comes in many shapes and sizes.

An excellent book and definitely a recommended read!

Alih

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2023

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Beautifully written, quite saddening to think of all those soldiers who suffered for their country in so many different ways

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