Jonathan Wilkins

Poppy Flowers at the Front Jonathan Wilkins

THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF CRIME NOVELS FEATURING OUR HERO, LADY PANDORA OPHELIA LOVEDAY, POPPY TO HER FRIENDS. With her father, Lord Loveday in the British secret service and her brother Alfie in the trenches, is it any wonder that Lady Pandora Ophelia Loveday, Poppy to her friends, decided to volunteer to drive ambulances in France? We follow her adventures in France as she races to get wounded men to the Casualty Clearing Station and then the Base Hospital as safely as possible. She finds Élodie Proux, a French nurse at a roadside clutching the body of a soldier and takes her back to her base. Élodie becomes her dearest girl as they fall in love. Poppy and Élodie meet a series of frightening adversaries over the closing weeks of World War 1 in Paris, at Home as well as at the Front, culminating in a frantic quest to save ... No, I think you had better read the book.