A Wartime Nurse

Informationen zum Autor Maggie Hope was born in County Durham, during the Depression of the 1930s. She is the daughter of a coal miner and knows first-hand the hardships suffered by miners and their families during that time. Along with her three sisters, she was raised in a ‘two-up-two-down’ miner’s cottage with no inside toilet. Growing up, Maggie never dreamed she could earn a living from her writing. Instead she left school at sixteen and became a nurse, collecting stories from colleagues who had served during the war. Maggie gave up nursing when she married her husband and started a family. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s though that she finally began her writing career. She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels. Klappentext A gritty and gripping saga of a young nurse's experiences during WWII, based on the author's own time nursing in the 1950s. Will appeal to saga fans and readers of bestselling non-fiction like "Nurse On Call". Zusammenfassung As bombs begin to fall, her strength will be tested... A newly qualified nurse, Theda Wearmouth is delighted to gain a place at Newcastle Hospital.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Hope, Hope Maggie
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.03.2011
• EAN: 9780091940690
• ISBN: 978-0-09-194069-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Medical, Newcastle and Gateshead, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)