
When the Dawn Breaks
Emma Fraser(Author)
Sphere (Publisher)
Published on 15. August 2013
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-7515-5125-9 (ISBN)
Description
Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice. Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. And then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, whom Isabel just can't stay away from. After an unsettling encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, and all their lives are irrevocably changed ...Years later, Isabel is a qualified doctor and Jessie is a nurse and when their paths cross again, neither is certain what the other woman knows about that fateful day. But when war breaks out and they find themselves working shoulder to shoulder, they have no option but to confront all they have kept hidden. Taking in Skye and Edinburgh, France and Serbia, When the Dawn Breaks is a sweeping wartime story of two determined women and the dark secret that will bind them forever ...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
568 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7515-5125-9 (9780751551259)
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Emma Fraser is an ex-nurse and she completed her training in Edinburgh. Her research into medical training in the early twentieth-century inspired her to write about strong Scottish nurses and female doctors during World War I and When the Dawn Breaks was the result. This is her first novel as Emma Fraser but she has written many medical romances under the name Anne Fraser. Emma lives with her husband and two children in Glasgow.