Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four by the late English author R. H. Mottram, who was also a wartime poet and later lord mayor of Norwich, is the 2nd novel in the The Spanish Farm Trilogy of historical literary fiction, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.
This was originally published in 1927 by Chatto & Windus. The first novel in the trilogy won the Hawthornden Prize. The stories are set during World War I and depict the impacts of the war upon daily civilian life as well as soldierly routine, written partially from the author’s own experiences, set in Northern France at “The Spanish Farm”, an accommodation for young British soldiers heading to and from the trenches which becomes a sort of sanctuary, run by a strong-willed Flemish farmer’s daughter.
This installment has f/m romantic elements (though not necessarily a happy ending), featuring a French-speaking Lieutenant whose way out of the dangerous trenches is a reassignment to translate for the woman who runs the Spanish Farm, with whom he will have many encounters later throughout the war as he begins to reluctantly fall for her even as she begins to despair of receiving word of her former lover who had departed to join the war effort, and personal and cultural clashes may doom their nascent relationship.
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