Flora's War

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It's 1915 and sixteen-year-old Australian Flora Wentworth is visiting Cairo with her archaeologist father. She watches with growing alarm as first a trickle and then a flood of wounded soldiers are shipped into the city from Gallipoli. Flora's comfortable life is turned upside down when a hospital visit thrusts her into the realities of World War 1. She is soon transporting injured soldiers and helping out exhausted nurses - managing to fall in love along the way. As Flora battles to save lives and find her own, a tragic misunderstanding changes everything...

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Pamela Rushby lives in Brisbane with her husband, son and six visiting scrub turkeys. Pam has worked in advertising; as a pre-school teacher; and as a writer and producer of educational television, audio and multimedia. She has won several awards, including a Literature Board of the Australia Council grant to work on archaeological excavations in Egypt and Jordan; a Churchill Fellowship to study educational television in Canada; the Ethel Turner Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards; and a bag of gold coins at a film festival in Iran. Her website is www.pamelarushby.com