The Daughters of Mars
The Daughters of Mars is a 2012 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally. Plot summary. Sally and Naomi Durance are two nurses from country New South Wales who are shipped to Egypt during World War I end up on the Red Cross hospital ship "Archimedes", stationed in the Dardanelles. The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe. To the two nurses, Notes. Judith and Jane