Books like Poppy Day by Katie Dicker

Poppy, a clever parlourmaid in a country house, faces forbidden love and the hardships of World War I while striving to aid wounded soldiers and protect the future of a young soldier who may never return home.

Poppy, a young nurse, leaves home after heartbreak and heads to Flanders, where frontline war challenges her and the harsh ward leader she must endure, revealing the courage of women on the front.

Sara Norton had always fallen in love badly. This time she was determined that her romance was going to work out. Of course, she didn't know much about Dave Fillery—who his family was or where he got his money—but such things didn't seem to matter when she got the chance to combine a photography assignment and a vacation with Dave in Afghanistan. The attractive young couple admired the sights around Kabul and then moved on to Herat to pick up a car whose owner wanted it driven back to England. Their first stop would be the holy city of Mashad in Persia. But then they got into trouble with the Iranian police. A primitive, opium-growing Afghan tribe led by a wily old khan who punishes informers by having their tongues cut out, a group of unscrupulous international businessmen, a British diplomat with a lusty wife, a darkly handsome police officer, a kidnapping, gun battles, and a sandstorm are some of the elements in a fast-moving story that takes place against the exotic background of Afghanistan and Persia.

A captivating story of two young women, bound together by the tragedy of two very different wars. With the end of the First World War, Rose is looking forward to welcoming home her beloved husband, Alfie, from the battlefields. But his return is not what Rose had expected. Traumatised by what he has seen, the Alfie who comes home is a different man to the one Rose married. As he struggles to cope with life in peacetime, Rose wrestles with temptation as the man she fell in love with seems lost forever. Many years later, Jess returns from her final tour of Afghanistan. Haunted by nightmares from her time at the front, her longed-for homecoming is a disaster and she wonders if her life will ever be the same again. Can comfort come through her great-grandmother Rose's diaries? For Jess and Rose, the realities of war have terrible consequences. Can the Poppy Factory, set up to help injured soldiers, rescue them both from the heartache of war?