Title – Nursing Fox
Author – Jim Ditchfield
Genre – Historical Fiction
Length – 291 Pages
My Rating – 5/5 Stars
Synopsis
At the outbreak of World War I, Lucy Paignton-Fox enlists in the Australian Army Nursing Service and leaves her family’s cattle station in the Northern Territory to join the war effort. During the Gallipoli campaign she serves in hospitals in Egypt, but when the Anzacs are posted to France she moves with them. A talented and spirited nurse, with dreams of one day becoming a doctor, Lucy finds more opportunities than she ever imagined: working alongside doctors and surgeons, sharing the soldiers’ dangers, helping them through their pain, and making lifelong friends.
But with war comes suffering. Lucy sees it all around: sorrow, disease and death. How long can she stay separated from it all?
Adam Hayward joins the British Army after a devastating attack on his family. Accepted into…
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