num_pages: 405
description: In 1855 Rosa Barr a headstrong young woman travels to the Crimea against the wishes of her family determined to work as a nurse. She does not return.Three people have been intimately connected with her. One her brother a soldier and adventurer; the second a doctor traumatized by the war and harbouring a secret passion and the third Mariella her cousin and childhood friend who must now uncover the truth about what has happened to the missing nurse.Mariella's epic journey takes her from the domestic quiet of London to the foothills of Italy and on to the ravaged Russian landscape of the Crimea where she must discover what has happened to her captivating and mysterious cousin and uncover the secrets of those who loved her..
language: English
title: The Rose of Sebastopol
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson