Stella Bain / Anita Shreve.

By: Shreve, Anita [author.]Contributor(s): Davis, Hope, 1967- [narrator.]Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2013]Copyright date: ℗2013Description: 6 audio discs (CD) (approximately 7 hr.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audiodiscISBN: 9781478953647Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction | War neuroses -- FictionGenre/Form: Audiobooks. Read by Hope Davis.Summary: When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.
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When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.

Read by Hope Davis.

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