num_pages: 319
description: For Isobel Spry the war in the Crimea meant only one thing at first her lover Edmund was a surgeon there working in the hospitals operating on soldiers back from the battlefields. Having had a little experience in nursing she decides to accompany and assist Florence Nightingale in tending to the sick and wounded. But what she finds there is far beyond what her genteel sensibilities could imagine. Throughout the story her strong sense of justice is challenged at every turn as she tackles mysterious goings-on in the hospital a rival for her lover s affections and even the cover up of a murder. Gerry Humphries accurately evokes the upheaval and turmoil of the time when the battlefield hospitals were being overhauled and where good sense hard work and a caring nature would always win through. A beautifully written historical novel that recalls with pin-point accuracy the heart-rending adventure a young woman experiences to find love in the most extraordinary of circumstances.
language: English
title: Blood On Their Petticoats
publisher: Olympia Publishers