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It is autumn 1939...and it is war time. Emma Dewar has completed the first rung of her nursing career. The Princess Beatrice Hospital - "Beatties" - in south-east London is the next step up for Emma, and sharing her preliminary training course is Bea Shuter, who is both amused and dismayed by Emma's goody-goody image. When the two girls are off-duty from patients, bedpans and study they are determined to make the most of their free time. London is teeming with men, most of them in uniform and all of them keen to befriend a pretty nurse. All's fair in love and war...especially when no one knows what their future holds.
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Daish spent some of her childhood on the Isle of Wight.
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In 1939, Emma Dewar begins her training at a nursing home near Bristol. She survives unpleasant tasks and incessant discipline to learn about her fellow nursing students and the elderly residents they serve. Daish skillfully re-creates a society in flux as war encroaches on civilian life, culminating in an air raid that kills one of Emma's friends. However, once Emma moves to London to continue her training, Daish increasingly emphasizes Emma's relationship with a childhood friend from the Isle of Wight. Despite the security Phil offers and the wartime urgency to marry, Emma hesitates. Longing for romance instead of companionship, she eventually falls in love with a surgeon. Despite the more predictable nature of this section, Daish keeps the action moving. One only wishes she had also sustained the creation of place and character she achieved earlier. Note: The binding on this came apart on first reading.
- Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherSevern House
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0727852779
- ISBN 13 9780727852779
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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