Bandaging the Blitz

240 pages. Text lightly tanned, Light foxing just starting inside cover/ ffep's.An incredible true coming-of-age storyIn 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyll is Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off fr om her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End , where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirl wind of long days, hard work, new friends and plenty of mischief, but just ten m onths later Britain declares war on Germany and life at the hospital is transfor med. Phyll's days become an endless cycle of air-raid sirens, injured servicemen and anxiously waiting for news of loved ones. And when she falls in love with a handsome young solider, Alistair, Phyll's work provides the only distraction fr om worrying about his safety.Bandaging the Blitz is a true story of comin g-of-age in terrible times, of the blossoming of first romance into a life-long love affair, and of a young woman whose eagerness to do good in the world brough t her suddenly face-to-face with death and drama in all its many guises.…