Frontline: The sweeping WWI drama that ‘deserves to be read’ – Jeffrey Archer

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A drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms. Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery of penicillin to the birth of the NHS, successive generations of the Burnett family are at the vanguard of life-saving developments in medicine. Frontline is the story of an aristocrat’s daughter who joins the war effort as a nurse. In a field hospital in rural France she meets Will, a dockworker’s son serving as a stretcher-bearer. As rumours of an armistice begin to circulate, so too does a mysterious respiratory illness that soldiers are referring to as the ‘Spanish flu’. ‘The doctor hits the spot and deserves to be read.’ – Jeffrey Archer —- ISBN: 9781787397521