Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Todd, Charles Title: The walnut tree / Charles Todd. Publisher, Date: New York : William Morrow, ©2012. Description: 248 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Young women -- Fiction Nobility -- England -- Fiction Nurses -- England -- Fiction World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction Historical fiction Romance fiction LCCN: 2012031037 ISBN: 9780062236999 (hardcover) Other Number: 806993463 System Availability: 23 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 23 Control Number: 1058169 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 23 # System items in: 23 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Summary "You're going to love Todd." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly The critically acclaimed creator of the Inspector Ian Rutledge and battlefield nurse Bess Crawford mystery series, Charles Todd now offers readers a bittersweet love story and romantic mystery that unfolds at Christmas during the dangerous opening days of World War I. The Walnut Tree is an unforgettable story of a woman who puts herself in the line of fire for the sake of wounded soldiers and falls deeply in love with a man who may be forbidden to her. For anyone who has fallen under the spell of Downton Abbey, and for all the fans of the British-set mysteries of Elizabeth George, Anne Perry, Ruth Rendell, Martha Grimes, and Jacqueline Winspear, The Walnut Tree is essential reading. Suggestions and more Trade Reviews Booklist ReviewLady Elspeth Douglas is in Paris staying with her friend Madeleine when World War I breaks out. As the French army is mobilized, her schoolgirl crush, Madeleine's brother, Alain, declares his love for her. She accepts Alain's ring, but on her journey back to England, she ends up helping wounded soldiers on the battlefield, meeting up with family friend Captain Peter Gilchrist. On her return to England, neglecting to tell her guardian, she joins Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, returning to the battlefields of France. Torn between her growing feelings for Peter and her concern for Alain, who is missing and believed captured by the Germans, she works as a surgical nurse until her guardian learns of her vocation, and, at his request, she is dismissed from the service. Framed by the horrors of the battlefields of World War I, Scottish history, and details of the lives of the hardworking nurses and the deprivations of wartime England and France, this is the story of a strong-willed woman rejecting her privileged background to serve king and country.--O'Brien, Sue Copyright 2010 Booklist Map It Fiction/Biography Profile Large Cover Image Series Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
