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Inspired by the life of Florence Nightingale, this literary gem is part historical fiction, part ghost story, and utterly original. Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a storied career as a nurse, writer, and...
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Inspired by the life of Florence Nightingale, this literary gem is part historical fiction, part ghost story, and utterly original.
Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a storied career as a nurse, writer, and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening, she is astonished to receive a visitor—a young man named Silas Bradley, who claims to have met her during the Crimean War fifty-five years ago. But how can this be? And how does the elusive Jean Frawley connect their two lives?
In this eagerly anticipated novel, Laura Elvery shows why she is one of the most lauded writers of her generation. Nightingale is a luminous tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women's work.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780702265877
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 April 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. Her work has been published in Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and The Big Issue fiction edition. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. In 2018 Laura's first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. Laura's latest short story collection, Ordinary Matter, won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award.
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