The poppy girls
Dickinson, Margaret, 1942-2019
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Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914 and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father's friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her. Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice's brother, William, joins them as a stretcher bearer. Amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire, the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.
Main title:
The poppy girls / Margaret Dickinson.
Author:
Dickinson, Margaret, 1942-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Long Preston : Magna, 2019.
Collation:
480 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Macmillan, 2018.
ISBN:
9780750546898 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.914FICTION
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2788187