Flora's War

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 . . .


Genre: Children's Fiction