My Dear, I wanted to tell you

MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a big First World War novel with a difference, moving between Ypres, Amiens, London, Paris, Lancashire and Kent to tell of the experiences of women left at home as much as those of men in the trenches. It is the first of a trilogy observing - through the descendents of Peter, Julia, Riley, Nadine, Rose and others - ways in which the experiences of that massively traumatic period and its aftermath shaped the following generations: all of us who grew up in the twentieth century.

The title comes from a standard letter which was provided to soldiers who were wounded and admitted to hospital.