A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military
nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of
women who risked their lives in the fight-a riveting saga of
friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and
selflessness of Band of Brothers with the emotional resonance of
The Nightingale. In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish
girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded
soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed
her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep
her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close
to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one
of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo's heart is seared by
the pain of all she has lost and seen. Nearing her breaking point,
she fights to hold on to joyful memories of the past, to the times
she shared with her best friend, Kay, whom she met in nursing
school. Half a world away in the Pacific, Kay is trapped in a
squalid Japanese POW camp in Manila, one of thousands of Allied
men, women, and children whose fates rest in the hands of a
sadistic enemy. Far from the familiar safety of the small
Pennsylvania coal town of her childhood, Kay clings to memories of
her happy days posted in Hawaii, and the handsome flyer who swept
her off her feet in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. Surrounded by
cruelty and death, Kay battles to maintain her sanity and save
lives as best she can ...and live to see her beloved friend Jo once
more. When the conflict at last comes to an end, Jo and Kay
discover that to achieve their own peace, they must find their
place-and the hope of love-in a world that's forever changed. With
rich, superbly researched detail, Teresa Messineo's thrilling novel
brings to life the pain and uncertainty of war and the sustaining
power of love and friendship, and illuminates the lives of the
women who risked everything to save others during a horrifying
time.
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