PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE LOST by Louise Penny
1921. Families are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many survivors of the Great War have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis has not come home. He is considered‘missing in action’, but when Edie receives a mysterious photograph taken by
Francis in the post, hope flares. And so she beings to search. Harry, Francis’s brother, fought alongside him. He too longs for Francis to be alive, so they can forgive each other for the last things they ever said. Both brothers shared a love of photography and it is that which brings Harry back to the Western Front. Hired by grieving families to photograph gravesides, as he travels through battle-scarred France gathering news for British wives and mothers, Harry also searches for evidence of his brother. And as Harry and Edie’s paths converge, they get closer to a startling truth.
Caroline Scott is a freelance writer and historian specialising in WWI and women’s history. The Photographer of the Lost, partially inspired by her family history, is her first novel.
