Frankie McGrath is twenty, halfway through nursing school and raised to be a good girl on Coronado Island when a single remark about women being heroes redirects her life.
In 1965 her brother ships out to Vietnam and she follows, joining the Army Nurse Corps with almost no preparation for what a field hospital demands. Kristin Hannah gives equal room to the war and to what came after it: the friendships formed under fire, the love and loss that mark those years, and a homecoming that refuses to acknowledge that women served at all.
Notes on the writing:
• Follows an army nurse from training through Vietnam and home again
• Female friendship placed at the centre of a war narrative
• Covers the return and the denial that met women veterans
• Popular fiction pacing with substantial research behind it
For readers of historical and book club fiction, The Women is available at Boipoka.
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