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  • Published: 30 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448150267
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512
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A Nurse's Courage

a gripping story of love and duty set during the First World War




A young nurse's life is forever changed by war. A gritty, engrossing saga set in the First World War. Previously published as A Child at the Door by Maggie Bennett.

If you love watching Call the Midwife or reading Dilly Court and Donna Douglas, you will love much-loved author Maggie Holt's warm-hearted, captivating and intensely moving wartime saga in which a young nurse's life is forever changed by war. Perfect to settle down with!

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT A NURSE'S COURAGE!
'I found this book extremely difficult to put down' - 5 STARS
'Truly breathtaking' - 5 STARS
'Fantastic book, from start to finish...recommend' - 5 STARS
'Worth every penny' - 5 STARS
'Great story- I couldn't put the book down, totally addicted to it' - 5 STARS

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HER COUNTRY NEEDED HER, BUT SO DID HE...

Orphan Mabel Court's dreams come true when she enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary as a probationer nurse. But it is August 1914, and her world is about to be turned upside down.

She soon meets Norah McLoughlin, another probationer, and the two girls - together with Mabel's childhood friend Maudie, now a music-hall dancer - become firm friends.

As war rages across Europe, they try to keep their spirits up but when Mabel's fiancé Harry Drover is wounded at the battle of the Somme, Mabel realises that the life she and Harry had always hoped for is now an impossibility.

Then when Maudie falls pregnant by an officer, and Norah's young man is lost at sea, all three girls are forced to face the fact that life will never be the same again.

The adventures continue in A Nurse at War.

Previously published as A Child at the Door by Maggie Bennett.

  • Published: 30 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448150267
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512
Categories:

About the author

Maggie Holt

Maggie Holt was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, in 1931. She worked as a nurse and midwife for many years before marrying and moving to Manchester where her two daughters were born. Having been an avid reader and scribbler all her life she took a correspondence course in creative writing after her husband’s death in 1983, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers’ Award in 1992. Writing as Maggie Bennett, she is also the author of A Child’s Voice Calling, A Child at the Door, A Carriage for the Midwife and A Child of Her Time, all available from Arrow.

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