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Remembrance Day: five beautiful novels about war commemoration

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par Ann-Marie Einhaus, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Alexandra Peat, Research Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Every autumn, the UK participates in an astonishing commemorative practice: the annual charity drive of the Poppy Appeal. From its origins during the first world war to the purple poppy commemorating animals in wartime, the artificial poppy has become a fragile but enduring symbol of remembrance.

Writers of fiction have frequently turned to ephemeral objects like the poppy (that is, fragile and disposable ones)…

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