Gretel and the Great War Book Club by Douglas Hardy

by Douglas Hardy

For more than seventy years

Follow Grace Banker’s journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of France

Rudy and his mother struggle to move on

and Mul Singh

Gretel and the Great War Book Club by Douglas HardyDescription by Adam Ehrlich Sachs Paperback One of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 One of Bloomberg's nine best books of the summer "Inventive . . . Whimsical . . . Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale, Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while summoning an unexpected imaginary place." The New Yorker "Sachs draws from the madcap, darkly comic tradition of postmodern European fiction to reimagine the continents catastrophic destiny . . .