The Poppy Girls Audiobook (Free)

The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.

Even amidst the horror from the trenches, friendship will survive .

Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother’s wishes that she settle down and raise children. Nevertheless, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it appears perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor in the end. But the year about The Poppy Girls is normally 1914 and the near future is normally uncertain. Hearing that her father’s friend, Dr John Hazelwood, can be forming a flying ambulance corps to try leading lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to visit with her. Robert and Giles present their services as doctors, and Alice’s brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer.

Nothing at all could have prepared them for the horrific places they encounter. Shifting their unit near to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger. But also amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire, the unending blast of hurt being brought to their post, the appreciate between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.