by Holly Green
‘You told me when you gave it to me that one day I should take out your hair and replace it with a lock of my firstborn child’s.’
‘It didn’t seem possible, then, that it might be our child.’
Very gently, she ran her hand over the child’s head. A few delicate hairs came away in her fingers. She opened the compartment in the locket and carefully wound the dark hair and the auburn together and replaced them in the locket. She raised her eyes to Sasha’s.
‘Survivors,’ she said. ‘You once said that if we could be together we could face the whole world. Now there are three of us and we can build a new world, better than the old one.
I am indebted to Lynette Beardwood, archivist for the FANY and fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, for drawing my attention to the stories of Mabel Stobart and Flora Sands and for providing me with invaluable source material about the FANY during World War I.
I should also like to thank my husband for proofreading and my writing group friends Christine and Maureen for their invariably helpful criticisms.
Make sure you read the rest of the Frontline Nurse series
Go back to where it all began …
Can she follow her heart while doing her duty?
After training with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Leonora Malham Brown sets off to Europe with her new friend, Victoria, determined to do her bit for the war effort.
The battlefield is a difficult place for a woman so Leonora cuts her hair short and swaps her skirts for trousers in order to better cope with the demanding duties of a frontline nurse. But concealing her true identity becomes more complicated when she meets the dashing Colonel Malkovic.
Torn between keeping her secret and their blossoming friendship, Leonora must choose between her duty and her heart …
Can they do their bit for the war effort?
When war breaks out in 1914, Leonora Malham Brown and her best friend, Victoria, head to Calais to volunteer with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Determined to see her sweetheart, Colonel Malkovic, again Leonora soon decides to return to the Eastern Front.
But once there, Leonora gets caught up in the danger and chaos of the battlefields and she loses hope of ever finding Sasha. Alone and in danger, Leonora must put into practice the very best of her nursing training if she is to return safely home.
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental
This edition published by Ebury Press in 2020
First published as ‘Harvests of War’ by Severn House in 2012
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