A book I love to re-read. The main character is a sensible, practical, hard working young woman who decides to enrol to train as a nurse at the Nightingale school of nurses.
She is also intelligent and forthright and at times knows a lot better than the trainee doctors on the ward where she is now a sister - which causes her problems.
Frances Murray manages to give a rich impression of the period and characters without bogging the reader down in detail. I very much admire her technique of interspersing a few notes between characters and on occasion the odd newspaper article, as an amusing and quick way to tell the reader about what happened next. ( )