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History and gender issues are intwined inThe Red Tunic,a gripping take on WW1 historical romance for the modern reader. As headstrong as her twin, is gentle, Nina has never fit the womanly mould society expects of her. Raised by a sick, dying mother and a distant, stern father, Alfie and Nina Mullins have always relied on their shared world of hope and make-believe for comfort. When the pressure on Alfie to prove himself at the Front mounts, Nina is presented with more possibility than she had ever imagined and the two are pushed in wildly different directions. Nina assumes Alfie's place in the trenches andbattles to keep her true identity a secret, while he pretends to be Nina and undergoes training as a nurse. Coming of age as the First World War breaks out, the Mullins twins' fates are inextricably interlinked with the turmoil of conflict in this fascinating exploration of gender roles, women's rights, and the extremes to which war pushes us.

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Kate Wiseman was born in Oxford, UK in the 1970s. The first in her working-class family to go to university, she graduated with a First in English and Creative Writing.Kate describes herself as a late developer. She didn't start trying to achieve her ambition of becoming a published writer until she was 50. Her series of Gangster School novels were shortlisted for several awards and have been published in 4 countries. Since then, she has written several other novels for teens and middle grade readers. Her debut adult novel, The Red Tunic, won the Eyelands Award for Historical Fiction pre-publication in 2020. The following year, her historical fiction novel, The Mudlark Mysteries: The Grinning Throat, won the Eyelands Award for Children's Writing. Kate lives in Chichester, UK and works as a tutor in English. Her fascinations are history, English and mudlarking, and she is a licensed mudlark. Her ambition is to find an intact Bellarmine jug.

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