When Duties Collide, How Do You Choose?
For readers of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue and The Women by Kristin Hannah—a father and daughter on the medical front lines of the 1918 influenza pandemic and World War I, fighting the same invisible enemy from opposite sides of the world.
On the Kansas prairie, as The Great War rages in Europe, Dr. Lorne Miller confronts an invisible enemy, a flu-like illness swiftly killing otherwise healthy adults. As answers remain elusive and fear spreads, his daughter Helen returns home, fresh from nursing school and already planning her return to Boston and the suffrage work that calls to her.
When Lorne makes an agonizing choice he will forever regret, Helen chooses defiance—audaciously joining the Army Nurse Corps and sailing for Europe, carrying a blame she lays squarely at her father’s feet.
From America’s heartland to New York City’s Department of Health and field hospitals in France, father and daughter battle in laboratories and operating theaters: he racing to develop a vaccine as the government suppresses the truth, she discovering purpose in the chaos of combat surgery. Separated by an ocean but bound by love and loss, each must confront the limits of conviction and control, and each must lose everything before they can find what—and who—they cannot live without.
“In her propelling debut, Dee Andrews delivers a fascinating look at the emergence of the Spanish flu and the impossible choices it forced on a world already at war. Seen through the eyes of a father and his daughter, both devastated by loss and battling the virus on different fronts, The Fevered World transports you from the Kansas prairie to the field hospitals of France, capturing your heart along the way. A powerful, moving, and unforgettable read.”
Amanda Skenandore, author of The Nurse’s Secret
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