| Record Number |
869127 |
| ISBN |
9781867207764 (paperback) |
| Author |
Purman, Victoria author. |
| Title |
The nurses' war / Victoria Purman. |
| Edition |
First Australian paperback edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Pagination etc. |
582 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary Note |
In 1915, as World War 1 rages in Europe and the numbers of dead and injured continue to grow, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barker, leaves her home in Australia for England, determined to use her skills for King and country. When she arrives at Harefield House - donated to the Australian Army by its expatriate Australian owners - she helps transform it into a hospital that is also a little piece of home for recuperating Australian soldiers. As the months pass, her mission to save diggers lives becomes more urgent as the darkest months of the war see injured soldiers from the battlefields of France and Belgium flood into Harefield in the thousands. When the hospital sends out a desperate call for help, a quiet young seamstress from the village, Jessie Chester, steps up as a volunteer. At the hospital she meets Private Bert Mott, a recovering Australian soldier, but the looming threat of his return to the Front hangs over them. Could her first love be her first heartbreak? |
| Subject |
Australia. -- Army. -- Australian Auxiliary Hospital, 1st -- Fiction |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction |
| Nurses -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Soldiers -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Harefield (London, England) -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Romance fiction. |
| War fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F PURM |
