In the lamplight / Dianne Wolfer ; illustrated by Brian Simmonds.

By: Wolfer, Dianne, 1961- [author.]Contributor(s): Simmonds, Brian, 1938- [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 112 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925591224 (hardback)Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction | Military nursing -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction | Nurses -- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction | Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries -- Australia -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Diary fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: From fighting for the right to vote to nursing conscripted young men, Rose’s life changes forever when World War I arrives in the peaceful English village of Harefield. With an influx of wounded Australian soldiers, the villagers rally around to provide care and comfort, despite suffering their own casualties and grieving for their own losses. Training to nurse Australian soldiers like Jim the Light Horse boy is hard work, but with it comes much for Rose to treasure – in the gaining of a vocation, in confidence won and in finding new love in a new land.
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From fighting for the right to vote to nursing conscripted young men, Rose’s life changes forever when World War I arrives in the peaceful English village of Harefield. With an influx of wounded Australian soldiers, the villagers rally around to provide care and comfort, despite suffering their own casualties and grieving for their own losses. Training to nurse Australian soldiers like Jim the Light Horse boy is hard work, but with it comes much for Rose to treasure – in the gaining of a vocation, in confidence won and in finding new love in a new land.

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