{"product_id":"the-german-ward-by-pip-williams-9781923135444","title":"The German Ward","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe love story of the year: a breathtaking new novel from the author of global bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bookbinder of Jericho\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e A tale of love between enemies behind the lines of WW1 and the Australian artist who captures their secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is a story about desire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrance, 1915.\u003c\/i\u003e An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first, the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can’t look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this luminous tale of hope in the midst of darkness, Pip Williams expands the world of her bestselling novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bookbinder of Jericho\u003c\/i\u003e. Sensual and sophisticated, \u003ci\u003eThe German Ward\u003c\/i\u003e shows one of Australia’s most significant writers reaching the height of her skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47594342416620,"sku":"9781923135444","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923135444-the-german-ward.jpg?v=1777857188","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-german-ward-by-pip-williams-9781923135444","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}