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1916, 2016: An emotionally-charged story of a friendship forged 100 years apart.
We’ve Come to Take You Home
What you need to know before your trail
Thousands of men have left home to fight in the war to end all wars. Jessica Brown’s father is about to be one of these men. A year later, he is still alive, but then a telegram arrives – her father has been killed in action.
Four generations later, Sam Foster’s father is admitted to hospital with a suspected brain haemorrhage. Sam refuses to take his hand when a nurse suggests it, her father lingering between the world of the living and that of the dead. She starts having dreams, nightmares about her and her father’s plight
As Sam’s father’s condition worsens, her dreams become more frequent – and more frightening. She realises that what she is experiencing is not a dream, but someone else’s living nightmare…
Locations
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England
Winchester – Sam’s cottage
Sam and her father have moved from a house where she knew ghosts lived, a two hundred year old cottage in the town with a castle, a ruined priory and steep cobbled streets.
Sussex: Jess
Her favourite place is standing on top of the world
To the east and west, Mount Caburn, Firle Beacon, Seaford Head, Kingston Hill and Hollingbury Castle ; to the south, the English Channel stretching away to France, to the north, the fields and copses of the Weald rolling away, mile upon mile, towards London.
Life where she is is difficult and poor. Women die in childbirth, women sometimes can’t find work and food for their family. their men are lost to war. The war might not happen here but it arrives in the village all the same.
The Battles in France and Belgium
Ypres and Marne. More than 21000 allied soldiers are killed or wounded at the Battle of Menin Road Bridge
The idea of angels in wartime
Ypres
There was much talk at the battlefront about the dead coming back to protect the living; angels striding out towards the enemy lines, everyone seemed to have seen one or heard of one. But I always regarded these roles as nothing but superstitious nonsense.
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Author/Guide: Susan Gandar Destination: Winchester, Sussex, France, Ypres Departure Time:1916, 2016
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