Summary
Traveling to France during World War I to bring home her fifteen-year-old brother, who ran away to enlist, Iris, a young Australian nurse, decides to stay in Paris to help establish a field hospital staffed entirely by women. Full description
Summary: |
Traveling to France during World War I to bring home her fifteen-year-old brother, who ran away to enlist, Iris, a young Australian nurse, decides to stay in Paris to help establish a field hospital staffed entirely by women. |
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Physical Description: |
454 p. |
ISBN: |
9780143123927 0143123920 |
Author Notes: |
Mary-Rose MacColl is an Australian author of five novels, a nonfiction book, short stories, feature journalism and essays. Her first novel, No Safe Place, was a runner-up for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley awards for journalism. Her novel In Falling Snow was an international bestseller. She won The Courier-Mail 2016 People¿s Choice Queensland Book of the Year with her book Swimming Home. (Bowker Author Biography) |