Physical description

Book with white front and back covers orange spine. On the front cover in addition to detailing the publisher [orange ink], including Penguin logo, author and title [both black ink], there is a coloured photograph of an operating theatre scene: Three masked and capped figures are facing a nurse drawing up an injection

Publication type

fiction

Summary

This is a fictionalized account of the one year the author spent training to be a nurse during World War II "The most striking thing about the book is that for all the emphasis on trivial irritations, momotony, hardship, mental stulificaion and lck of appreciation, Miss Dickens succeeds, almost in spite of herself, in conveying the essential nobility of the profession and the supreme satisfaction of a life saved"[ 'Listener' review]