We look forward to seeing you on your next visit to the library. Find a location near you.

Wake: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Author:
Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2014
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
 
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
 
London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat. One night Hettie meets a wealthy, educated man and finds herself smitten with him. But there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach. . . . Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange, through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, she looks for solace in her adored brother, who has not been the same since he returned from the front. . . . Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door, seemingly with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out-of-work veterans. But when he utters the name of her son, Ada is jolted to the core.
 
The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place.
Advance praise for Wake
 
“Hope’s unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittain’s classic memoir Testament of Youth in its depiction of the social and emotional fallout, particularly on women, of the Great War. . . . Hope reaches beyond the higher echelons of society to women of different social classes, all linked by their reluctance to bid goodbye to the world the conflict has shattered.”The New York Times Book Review
Wake is a tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown, and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for.”—Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee
 
Wake is a compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways—small, brave, or commonplace—in which we keep ourselves going. It touches feelings we know, and settings—dance halls, war fronts, queues outside the grocer’s—that we don’t. I loved it.”—Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
 
Wake is powerful and humane, a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope’s characters are so real, flawed, and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling.”—Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests
 
“Using telling detail, Hope creates a vibrant physical and emotional landscape in which her leading characters, and a sea of others, move irresistibly into the future, some having found resolution, others still in search. Fresh, confident, yet understated, Hope’s first work movingly revisits immense tragedy while also confirming her own highly promising ability.”Kirkus Reviews
Also in This Series
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Like This
Other Editions and Formats
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
02/11/2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780812995145
ASIN:
B00EMXBZS2
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Anna Hope. (2014). Wake: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Anna Hope. 2014. Wake: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Anna Hope, Wake: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2014.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Anna Hope. Wake: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2014.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection21
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
54bfae44-aa4d-bc64-1450-bfd39752c856
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 12, 2018 17:30:31
Date Updated:
Dec 06, 2020 02:45:05
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 24, 2024 08:56:10
Last Metadata Change:
Dec 11, 2023 17:29:57
Last Availability Check:
Mar 24, 2024 08:56:13
Last Availability Change:
Mar 15, 2024 08:48:45
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 29, 2024 02:17:20

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/1B4/2E8/94/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/1B4/2E8/94/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780812995145
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00EMXBZS2
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780812995145
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Anna Hope
title
Wake
dateAdded
2016-02-25T18:34:00-05:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=1381727
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
          • id: 1151
sortTitle
Wake A Novel
crossRefId
1381727
subtitle
A Novel
id
1b42e894-4387-4244-8be0-e1898dde8c28
starRating
3.9

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: Wake_9780812995145_1381727
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 5471553
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780812995145
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 2/11/2014
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/wake-1b42e8?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: Wake_1381727
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B00EMXBZS2
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 2/11/2014
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/wake-1b42e8?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: Wake_9780812995145_1381727
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780812995145
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 228194
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 2/11/2014
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/wake-1b42e8?.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: family
      • value: relationships
      • value: London
      • value: Friendship
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: War
      • value: Historical
      • value: family life
      • value: PTSD
      • value: war veterans
      • value: Early 20th Century
      • value: Fiction
      • value: love
      • value: grieving
      • value: Death
      • value: Military
      • value: Historical Fiction
      • value: Historical Romance
      • value: Military Fiction
      • value: world war 1
      • value: World War I
      • value: 1920
      • value: loss
      • value: post-traumatic stress disorder
      • value: Alternate History
      • value: first world war
      • value: Literary
      • value: war and military
      • value: dating and relationships
      • value: 20th century historical fiction
      • value: historical novels
      • value: women's lives
      • value: military books
      • value: war books
      • value: women's friendships
      • value: historical fiction books
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Hope, Anna
      • bioText: Anna Hope studied English at Oxford, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and then received an M.A. in creative writing at Birkbeck. She lives in London.
      • name: Anna Hope
imprint
Random House
publishDate
2014-02-11T00:00:00-05:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Wake
fullDescription
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
 
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
 
London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat. One night Hettie meets a wealthy, educated man and finds herself smitten with him. But there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach. . . . Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange, through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, she looks for solace in her adored brother, who has not been the same since he returned from the front. . . . Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door, seemingly with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out-of-work veterans. But when he utters the name of her son, Ada is jolted to the core.
 
The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place.
Advance praise for Wake
 
“Hope’s unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittain’s classic memoir Testament of Youth in its depiction of the social and emotional fallout, particularly on women, of the Great War. . . . Hope reaches beyond the higher echelons of society to women of different social classes, all linked by their reluctance to bid goodbye to the world the conflict has shattered.”The New York Times Book Review
Wake is a tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown, and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for.”—Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee
 
Wake is a compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways—small, brave, or commonplace—in which we keep ourselves going. It touches feelings we know, and settings—dance halls, war fronts, queues outside the grocer’s—that we don’t. I loved it.”—Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
 
Wake is powerful and humane, a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope’s characters are so real, flawed, and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling.”—Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests
 
“Using telling detail, Hope creates a vibrant physical and emotional landscape in which her leading characters, and a sea of others, move irresistibly into the future, some having found resolution, others still in search. Fresh, confident, yet understated, Hope’s first work movingly revisits immense tragedy while also confirming her own highly promising ability.”Kirkus Reviews
reviews
      • premium: False
      • source: The New York Times Book Review
      • content: "Hope's unblinking prose is reminiscent of Vera Brittain's classic memoir Testament of Youth in its depiction of the social and emotional fallout, particularly on women, of the Great War. . . . Hope reaches beyond the higher echelons of society to women of different social classes, all linked by their reluctance to bid goodbye to the world the conflict has shattered."
      • premium: False
      • source: Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee
      • content: "Wake is a tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown, and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for."
      • premium: False
      • source: Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
      • content: "Wake is a compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways--small, brave, or commonplace--in which we keep ourselves going. It touches feelings we know, and settings--dance halls, war fronts, queues outside the grocer's--that we don't. I loved it."
      • premium: False
      • source: Kirkus Reviews
      • content: "Wake is powerful and humane, a novel that charms and beguiles. Anna Hope's characters are so real, flawed, and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling."--Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests "Using telling detail, Hope creates a vibrant physical and emotional landscape in which her leading characters, and a sea of others, move irresistibly into the future, some having found resolution, others still in search. Fresh, confident, yet understated, Hope's first work movingly revisits immense tragedy while also confirming her own highly promising ability."
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
      • content:

        November 4, 2013
        Hope’s confident, well-crafted debut follows a trio of English women during the grim years after WWI, when no British family was left unscathed. Consequently, the novel is pervaded by a sense of absence and constant aching that underlies the women’s need to carry on. Ada, a grieving mother, is consumed by her son’s death; Hettie, a dance hall girl, waits resentfully for her shell-shocked brother to find a job; and Evelyn, a worker in a veterans’ relief office, takes pride in her ability to bury her emotional self, a quality which keeps her at her desk years after coworkers have quit. Each of the women’s lives is defined by loss, and as the book progresses, the stories of their dead and broken men begin to mesh. The overwhelming devastation of the war would be enough to justify the depressive grayness of the book, but Hope darkens the mood further by presenting a single tragedy from several perspectives. Though these characters may not be granted closure, they do get a chance at freedom.

      • premium: True
      • source: Kirkus
      • content:

        December 1, 2013
        The echoes of warfare reverberate through an evocative debut which considers the lasting impact of military carnage on those left to carry on. Grief and anger, shame, silence and the inextinguishable life force are some of the elements captured in Hope's delicate portrait of three women's lives in London in 1920, as the shock waves of World War I subside. While the French countryside starts to reclaim the battlefields, so the wives and mothers, sisters and daughters of the maimed and fallen must continue with their lives. One young woman, Hettie Burns, makes a living as a dance instructor, earning enough to support her unhappy mother and shellshocked brother. Ada Hart is still haunted by the death of her son, Michael, in 1917, whom she glimpses everywhere. And upper-class Evelyn Montfort, bitter after the death of her fiance, tries to find purpose in the drudgery of work. The book's time frame is the five-day period spanning the disinterment, the journey back to England and ceremonial procession to the Westminster Cathedral grave of the Unknown Warrior, during which period the women's lives begin to shift. Using telling detail, Hope creates a vibrant physical and emotional landscape in which her leading characters, and a sea of others, move irresistibly into the future, some having found resolution, others still in search. Fresh, confident, yet understated, Hope's first work movingly revisits immense tragedy while also confirming her own highly promising ability.

        COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      • premium: True
      • source: Library Journal
      • content:

        November 1, 2013

        In Hope's debut novel, the second anniversary of Armistice Day (November 11, 1918) is approaching, but the wounds caused by the war are far from healed in the lives of her three protagonists. Ada's inability to let go of her dead son is causing her marriage to fail, Evelyn has allowed the loss of her husband to harden her heart, and Hettie is frustrated by her brother's "shell shock," which keeps him from financially supporting her family. The three women's stories are interspersed with scenes describing the journey of the body of the English "Unknown Soldier" from a field in France to Westminster Abbey. VERDICT This is a moving read about the emotional paralysis caused by grief and uncertainty. Hope creates three very different main characters who are all sympathetic, even in their worst moments, and each completes a believable emotional journey over the course of the book. The inclusion of the Unknown Soldier allows for a satisfying resolution that acknowledges the importance of memorializing the dead even as the protagonists finally begin to imagine new beginnings for themselves. [See Prepub Alert, 8/26/13.]

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        November 1, 2013
        Wake is skillfully written from the outset, though the initial premise doesn't feel especially groundbreaking: in post-WWI London, three ordinary women cope with their stagnant lives. Hettie partners single men at a Hammersmith dance hall to support her mother and shell-shocked brother, upper-class Evelyn works as a pension clerk while mourning her lover, and Ada can't move past her soldier son's death. Hope then proceeds to color in their personal histories, revealing the distinctiveness of each character and situation over five days, during the lead-up to the unveiling of the Unknown Warrior's tomb in Westminster Abbey. As their circumstances change and new people enter their lives, the women are spurred to action. Likewise, as these characters' stories and others' are intermixed, readers will be flipping pages to discover their tragic connection. The background details are vivid, from a crowded West End jazz club to the trenches of northern France, both in 1920 and earlier. This increasingly riveting novel about war's futility, grief, remembrance, and renewal is a solid effort timed just right for the WWI centenary.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

popularity
163
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/1b42e894-4387-4244-8be0-e1898dde8c28/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
1b42e894-4387-4244-8be0-e1898dde8c28
starRating
3.9
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/1B4/2E8/94/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/1B4/2E8/94/{1B42E894-4387-4244-8BE0-E1898DDE8C28}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDateText
02/11/2014
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780812995138
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
 
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
 
London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat. One night Hettie meets a wealthy, educated man and finds herself smitten with him. But there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach. . . . Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange, through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, she looks for solace in her adored brother, who has not been the same since...
sortTitle
Wake A Novel
crossRefId
1381727
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Random House Publishing Group
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC032000
      • description: Fiction / War & Military