
Australian novelist Keneally turns to his native country in a time of war. Anticipating the centennial of World War I by a shade, Keneally constructs a Winds of War-like epic concerning figures whom only Ernest Hemingway, among the first-tier writers, got to: military nurses. Fans of Downton Abbey and Gallipoli alike will find much to admire in Keneally's fast-moving, flawlessly written pages.--Kirkus