The German Ward

Pip Williams

May 2027 · Random House

Ebook

352

Pages

Eligible

This book will become available on May 27, 2027. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this ebook

A forbidden love. A forgotten artist. A wartime secret discovered many years later.

One sketch shows two hands. A man’s and a woman’s. They are back to back and almost touching...

France, 1915. War rages and enemy lines are clear, but in a hospital ward treating German prisoners of war Tilda, an English nurse, falls in love with Hugo, a German doctor. Their desire is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it might have gone unrecorded if not for a series of sketches found more than a century later.

For the woman who finds them, these sketches are tantalising fragments of a lost narrative that she is determined to piece together...

This breathtaking novel from the author of international bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, is about the complexity of desire in a time of war, but it is also about art and memory and the stories we choose to tell about the past.

A forbidden love. A forgotten artist. A wartime secret discovered many years later. One sketch shows two hands. A man’s and a woman’s. They are back to back and almost touching... France, 1915. War rages and enemy lines are clear, but in a hospital ward treating German prisoners of war Tilda, an ...

Discover more

About the author

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is the author of the international number one bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and has been translated into over thirty languages. Pip's second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, was published in 2023.

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney and now calls the Adelaide Hills home. She is the author of the international number one bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words, which was a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and has been translated into over thirty ...

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets

Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.

Laptops and computers

You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.

eReaders and other devices

To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.

Flag as inappropriate