Flambards Divided is a sequel to the Flambards

Flambards

Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton.The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I...

 trilogy, written by K. M. Peyton

K. M. Peyton

Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton is a British author.Born in Birmingham, Peyton has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award...

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Synopsis

Flambards Divided continues the story of Christina, who has married Dick, following the death of her first husband, her cousin Will, during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. No one approves of Christina's marriage to Dick, because of his poor background, and the family runs into hardship. When Will's older brother, Mark, returns from the war in France, he is badly injured, although still his arrogant old self, and deeply resentful of Dick. Christina finds herself torn between the two and ends by doing what she never believed she would do: falling in love with Mark.

Critical reaction

Many have objected, sometimes for political reasons, to the way it reverses the ending of the original trilogy; others have praised it (again sometimes for political reasons). The events in this book do not appear in the television series, which was completed before Flambards Divided was written.