num_pages: 432
description: When nurse Mabel Court enters the Booth Street Infirmary, her future looks bright—this is the opportunity that she has always dreamt of. But it is August 1914, and her world is about to be turned upside down. As war rages across Europe, she and her friends try to keep their spirits up. But when Mabel's fiance Harry is wounded at the battle of the Somme, and returns home shell-shocked, Mabel realizes that the life she and Harry had always hoped for is now impossible.
language: English
title: A Child at the Door
titlecomplete: A Child at the Door
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Random House UK