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The Angel of Waterloo (Paperback)
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The Angel of Waterloo (Paperback)
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Loot Price R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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A powerful novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers
she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved
and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called
her Auntie Love. She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter,
a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the battlefield is just
a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a
society that allows women to practise medicine. On the other side
of the world, the newly founded colony of New South Wales seems a
paradise. But Europe's wars cast long shadows ... From bestselling
author Jackie French comes the story of one woman's journey from
the hell of Waterloo to colonial Australia, where she can forge her
own dreams in a land of many nations. PRAISE FOR JACKIE FRENCH 'a
master storyteller ... [she] gives women a rich, strong, and
brutally honest voice' - Better Reading 'Heartwarming,
heartbreaking and hard to put down' - Australian Women's Weekly on
If Blood Should Stain the Wattle
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