Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses is the page-turning second installment of the Home Front Nurses series.
Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses by Rachel Brimble
Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Fiction (1942), Nursing, Friendship, WWII Home Front, Bath (England)
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My Summary:
Thanks #NetGalley @BoldwoodBooks for a complimentary eARC of #DangerousDaysForTheHomeFrontNurses upon my request. All opinions are my own.
This second installment of the Home Front Nurses series continues to follow the lives of three young nurses: Freda, Sylvia, and Veronica. We see them working under difficult circumstances, handling complicated personal lives, maintaining friendships, and contemplating romance. I recommend reading the series in order.
My Thoughts:
Women Supporting Women
Freda, Sylvia, and Veronica are there for each other professionally and personally. Over these two installments, their friendship grows stronger as they learn to trust and depend upon one another.
Difficult Circumstances
We are in war conditions and the hospital and their neighborhoods have suffered bomb damage. Freya, Sylvia, and Veronica are exhausted and stretched to their limits. Resilience, resourcefulness, and bravery are needed. The author provides vivid details and descriptions, providing a strong sense of place and putting us in the middle of the action and drama.
Sides of Romance
Romance is not the focus of the story, but there is a side of romance for each character (including one f/f).
Themes
Thoughtful themes include duty, friendship, romance, family, community, endurance, resiliency, finding your purpose, and following your heart.
Content Consideration: War injuries and bomb damage, medical content, references to a past rape
Recommending Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses:
Fans of WWII stories that feature nursing and nurses will appreciate this engaging story. I recommend reading the series in order.
Related: When We Had Wings is another WWII story about nurses and nursing.
My Rating: 4 Stars
Meet the Author of Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses, Rachel Brimble
Rachel Brimble lives in a small town near Bath. She’s the author of 30 novels, including the popular Shop Girl series and Ladies of Carson Street trilogy as well as many single titles. Her brand new WWII series is published by Boldwood Books and set in Bath. The first book, The Home Front Nurses released 8th August with book 2 coming February 2025.
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and the Female Entrepreneur Association and also runs a manuscript & proofreading service.
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Carol, this book/series sounds interesting! I recently finished The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar and it will probably be my favorite book of 2025! It’s about a young nurse with a complicated childhood who is in the United States military and she rides planes along with the pilots to rescue injured men from battle sites and get them to safety. She takes care of many injured servicemen on each flight, often saving their lives. She’s first stationed in the Pacific, then later she is in England, fetching injured soldiers from France to a hospital in England. That’s only the first part of the book and I won’t tell you more, but it’s a fascinating book, and has some elements I’ve never encountered in a WWII novel.
Thanks for the rec! 🙌📚
I haven’t read many books set in hospitals, so that intrigues me. Nice review, Carol.
Yes, nursing is a good change of pace perspective!
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