is a debut novel about two American nurses who served in different countries during WWII - France and the Pacific.
First chapter:
Jo McMahon
Spring 1945, the Western Front
The main problem was her hands. They were raw and cracked and bleeding, and she couldn't get them to heal. A shell exploded outside the tent - somebody screamed and somebody laughed and someone else just said "fuck." Jo steadied the rickety supply rack in front of her, pressing her body against the shifting white boxes, pushing the brown glass bottles back into place with her thigh. The generator made a grinding noise as the lights flickered, went out, came back on. Her hands felt along the highest shelf, searching for a stray box of penicillin someone might have left behind in the initial rush to pack up, when the order to pull out had first come down....
Based on the first paragraph, would you go ahead and read more?
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Wow, this one sounds frightening...and like a page turner. Thanks for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteThat was a good beginning!
DeleteA different, descriptive beginning!
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And a wonderful Thanksgiving to you, Suko!
DeleteThis sounds wonderful; I think I would enjoy it. Hope you liked it as well.
ReplyDeleteI like reading informative historical fiction.
DeleteWas an amazing image is being created. Not sure it's a book for me but I do like the intro.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine what it must have been like being in the middle of the war!
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