The Daughters Of Mars
Keneally Tom
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: Reprint
Description: 589 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In 1915 Two Australian Sisters Joined The War Effort As Nurses, Nothing Could Have Prepared Them For What Lay Ahead.
Publishers Description: In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI and discover a world beyond their imaginings.Shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Prize.Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded.They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Le
ISBN: 9780143790822
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