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Having taken early retirement from her job as a systems analyst in the high-pressure financial world, Vicki Delany is settling down to the rural life in bucolic, Prince Edward County, Ontario where she rarely wears a watch.
"Novels about military nurses are relatively rare. This one is more so, because it's a story about a World War II Canadian military nurse - written within the reticulum of an upper-class Ontario family. Delany's military nurse, Moira, now in her eighties, engages a professional journalist to write her memoirs, and tells the journalist, """"I want this to be a story of the life of one Canadian woman,"""" adding, """"it's hard to get women's stories told and once told, heard....""""Not only is this a fascinating mystery, but to use Noah Richter's phrase, Delany gives the reader a real """"sense of Canadian place...""""But in this historical fiction, there is another """"sense of place"""" given: the feeling of being a Canadian military nurse in the UK and some parts of Europe during WW II. Chapters about those experiences and two years of post-war nursing in England are interwoven with those of decades of life at the cottage...the mystery of the """"burden"""" carried by this WW II nurse makes for utterly fascinating reading. --Shirley Stinson, Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Newsletter (Fall 2006)"
