Soif de Vivre
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"Brightly shone the moon that night
Though the frost was cruel"
Written for all devoted fans of Downtown Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs and The Cinder Path, a novel to inspire and give hope. See the First World War through the eyes of the young kitchen maid, Vera Lovelace as she tells her story and the stories of the St Clair family as she fights grief, encounters forbidden love and sees how terrible and brutal the war can really be.
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