Historical Fiction Book Club - The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Name: Historical Fiction Book Club - The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Start: 2025-03-27T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-27T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 50 N. Railroad St. Ste. 1, Palmyra, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17078

Schedule

Thu Mar 27 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

50 N. Railroad St. Ste. 1, Palmyra, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17078 | Palmyra, PA

Welcome to Book Bar's official Historical Fiction Book Club. For March, the selected book is The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (book description is located at the bottom of this listing).
So come out, grab a drink at our beverage bar, and join us for a lively book discussion! When you purchase this book club pick from us, your support will help us be here for a long time and put on more events! Purchasing options are below:
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We will select our next month's read at the end of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you!
Book Description:
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?
November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.