It is set during the First World War and it tells the story of an English nurse called Evelyn who is working with the wounded on the Eastern Front in the year 1916.
She witnesses great horrors, the mutilations, the loss of sight, the illnesses like tetanus, the problems caused by gangrene and even worse as the “lucky” ones are invalided back home to face an unknowable future filled with pain and heartache.
Evelyn rescues a teenage Polish girl, Illona, from being raped by Cossack cavalry.
Numbed by the horrors that they have seen the two women manage to flee as Lenin and the Red Army begin to take over and they fall in love.
Eventually they arrive in England but they quarrel and part.
But is their love story over?
Or is there still more tragedy to follow?
Read this novel to find out more.
It is published by Matador at £7.99.
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