This is a roller coaster ride of a story. It covers so many family relationships and has lot of drama. I rather loved how flawed everyone was, it was real and heartfelt throughout. At one point I did get nervous about a happy ending, but Chrissie Walsh pulled it out of the bag. I would read more of her books.

True love's path is rarely simple... but can Jude and Amy find their way back to each other? Praise for Chrissie Walsh. It was an okay book. Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.

Thank you #netgalley for the ARC of this book for an honest review.

The book follows Amy’s life, family and marriage with Jude pre-WWI, during and after. Amy is an amazingly strong woman who perseveres through family drama, death and the effects the war has on Jude.

I was rooting for Amy and Jude throughout the whole book. To say they didn’t have their fair share of problems is an understatement. I liked how the author touched on the subject of mental illness caused by the war. So many men during that time and through any war went through hell. Amy’s love, forgiveness and faithfulness shines through the whole story. Definitely recommend!

Thank you to Netgalley and Aria & Aries for the arc of this book.

3 stars- a great read, very well written and interesting found it was a bit confusing at times but overall a great book.
recommend

This was an incredible British family saga about a couple trying to make it through WWI and the aftermath. This book is an emotional journey with heart that focuses on the lives of every day people during the time period. The characters are wonderfully written and this book is impossible to put down once you start it. I highly recommend this book is you enjoy historical dramas.

What a wonderfully different historical story. I loved both Amy and Hugh's characters. I felt both Hugh and Amy's heartache when Hugh could not remember Amy after being injured in the war.
I was rooting for these two from the very beginning.
I will definitely be recommending this book.
Thank you Chrissie Walsh, Aria & Aries and NetGalley for allowing me an advance copy for my honest feedback.

Barnsborough 1922: The first time Hugh and Amy meet, the connection between them is electric. Hugh is a collier, Amy is a Librarian and the two get together over their love of books. But neither of them know that their families have secrets that threaten to keep them apart.

Leeds 1918: Amy is visiting her husband, Hugh at Becketts Park Hospital. He doesn't recognise her. Hugh is a shadow of his former self after serving four devastating years in the first world war.

This is the second book that I've read by Chrissie Walsh and I've loved them both. Hugh has had a mental breakdown after seeing the devastation that war brings. Amy doesn't really know how to help him except for their love of books. This is a well written novel that's true to the era. I was gripped from the first few pages. The pace flows along smoothly. I got lost in the story and before long, I was turning the last page. I'm looking for to seeing what's next in store for us from the author. This is a really good historical fiction novel.

I would like to thank #NetGalley, #Aria #Aries and the author #ChrissieWalsh for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book. Firstly, the book cover attracted me. The title spiked my curiosity and the plot too.


I love Amy. What a strong character she is.


I love how the author made use of flashbacks to take us on the full journey of the characters in this book.
It is quite emotional, I must say.


This book is so interesting. I was immersed in each page.

Amy and Jude really came a long way and I was pleased to see their determination despite how life treated them.


I am rating this book 5 perfect stars.


The author did a very great job here.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are mine.

In pre-WWI England, Amy and Jude fall in love over their love of books. She is a librarian and he is a collier in the local mine. They fall in love despite opposition from her family and the class differences between the two. Post war, Jude comes home with a severe case of shell shock and Amy is determined to find a way to bring him back. Can their mutual love of books save him and their marriage?

"The Collier's Wife" is a novel that includes multiple tough topics including emotional/mental abuse, shell shock (now known as PTSD), alcoholism and racism. There are some happy parts to the book but a lot of it deals with these issues and many more in the 1910's era of a small mining town. If you are looking for a good book with a lot of character depth this is it, if you are looking for a lighter read or may not be in a place to read about these topics you may want to steer clear of this book as it definitely has certain triggers that might affect a person negatively.

I did enjoy the book and really liked the ending to it. I was glad to see the conclusion bringing the characters full circle rather than leave them at a standstill.

Thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries Publishers for the opportunity to read this ARC. The receipt of this ARC did not affect my review in any way.

A brilliant Yorkshire saga. If you like war stories that also include love intrigue and laughs this is a great book to read. It’s explanations allow you to actually feel you are within that little Yorkshire village.

Wow ! I couldn’t get through this book quick enough. Follows the lives of Beattie who gets a hard time from her mother for reasons that become clear later. Amy and Jude get separated by the war . What becomes of them. Then there’s Maggie and Keira. I felt hardened to some characters the next I could have cried for them. Totally recommend it.

Thank you to #netgalley for an ARC of #The Collier’s Wife, which I enjoyed very much. This book is set pre-WWI, during and after the war. This time period attracted me because so many new historical fiction books are set in the WWII time period, and I hadn’t read any set in the WWI era. The novel centers around Amy and Jude Leas, a collier or coal miner, and their mutual interest in books and reading. After they marry, the couple plans to save money for Jude’s further education, which he earnestly desires. Hard collier work is just a way for them to support themselves in the interim, but when Amy becomes pregnant, plans for Jude’s further education are waylaid indefinitely. Then Jude enlists in the military as WWI heats up, along with fellow collier and friend Bert, who is also Jude’s brother-in-law. The hard reality of transport, building trenches and battle casualties is described, and Jude is ultimately sent back to England with “battle neurosis’ and hospitalized. Amy visits often and as she reads to Jude, he gradually improves and is sent home.

Set around their lives is the constant drama of Amy’s birth family: her bitter mother Bessie, who is mysteriously cruel to Amy’s sister, Beattie; Beattie’s alcoholism and neglect of her children; the passing of Amy’s beloved father; and the return of Raffy, an early love of her mother. There is a lot of misery surrounding the brothers and sisters in Amy’s birth family, much caused by her mother and overbearing brother Samuel. There were times when I wondered if this unremitting misery was to be the theme of the remainder of the book. Frankly, I found it a bit depressing.

Finally though, Jude’s state of mind begins to improve with Amy’s constant love and he returns home to her. Though their finances are poor, they gradually begin to sell used books at an outdoor market and later at their own real bookshop, earning success gradually and continuing their loving relationship and new family. I would rate this a solid 3 or 3 plus read.

The Collier’s Wife by Chrissie Walsh

Love at first site & Books! Can books fix a broken man from PTSD that in 1918 they had no clue what it was? But, a woman in love with her husband knew she could reach him with their love & books!

This book took us on a wonderful journey of family secrets that caused so much pain and revealed how words could damage a persons psyche so much that they could destroy themselves! Some people can heal because of a tragic event and they realize they are making so many wrong choices, but others unfortunately never see the way and people sometimes around them are not strong enough or in their own right way or position to offer them help.
This book is truly a remarkable journey and the author develops the characters so that you can follow as they progress so does the reader!
I truly appreciate and respect the author for the issues she addressed in the book.

Thank you to the authors and publishers who work diligently for us the readers.

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.

This was a book that l thoroughly enjoyed reading. There was an emotional storyline and the main characters were interesting. There was a lot of heartbreak and anguish . The whole story had me wanting to know what would happen and I was not disappointed with the ending. I recommend that you read this book.

This was a lovely story of family, relations and the trials of life. It was filled with emotional tears to your heart!
I enjoyed nd gave it 3 1/2 stars!

Leeds 1918.
Amy Leas arrives in Leeds to Becketts Park hospital, to see her husband Jude who is in with shell shock. Once a stately home now treating soldiers with nervous disorders, Jude is a changed man, psycholocical, gaunt and pale staring ahead not knowing that she was his wife, its going to be a long healing process.
the book then takes us back to 1906 in Barnborough Intake Farm where Amy grew up, working as a assistant librarian this is where her and Jude met and fell in love.
I loved this story full of love, compassion, and devoting to each other, this story is a delight to read.
the author brings you all the characters to life in this book. its a must read and i have become a big fan of her books every single one never disappoints me.