FRANCES WARD

Emily in War

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Every day after school, Emily keeps the books for her father’s liquor store and longs for a world beyond the Scottish shipbuilding town of Dumbarton. As her father describes her, she is, by turns, fiercely independent, curious, adventuresome, aloof, delicate—and, running through it all, deeply intelligent, often ruthlessly so. When Germany invades Poland in 1939, she realizes that match had finally been struck and war had begun. Set in Europe during World War II, the novel follows Emily as she joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the British Army. From her training in Camberley as a mechanical transport driver to her post-war experiences in Berlin, Emily is witness to a world on fire. The novel is the first historical fiction by the author.

Biography

Frances Ward is Professor Emerita of Nursing at Temple University. She is author of On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey and The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner.

Published: October 27, 2022