Love in the time of war and plague

Winnipeg, 1918. While her husband Robert battles the enemy and his own demons in the bloody trenches of northeastern France, Clare MacMillan tends to wounds on the home front—those inflicted by class warfare, the Spanish Flu, and a community torn apart by a violent workers' strike.

Seeing her husband return a broken man, Clare finds herself torn between duty and desire, loyalty and liberation.

In The Bittersweet Year, personal trauma mirrors a nation's wounds. Clare's journey from devoted wife to independent woman unfolds with devastating beauty, revealing how survival sometimes means letting go of everything you thought you wanted.

Perfect for book clubs and fans of literary historical fiction, this novel transforms historical upheaval into deeply personal stakes that will leave readers both heartbroken and hopeful.

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