Florence Nightingale Now: A Novel Shifts Not Only the Famed Nurse’s Perspective but Our Own
The dialogue makes this novel a standout, creating out of two actual people characters who define their different places in a remote world made present.
‘Flight of the Wild Swan’
By Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press, 416 pages
In Melissa Pritchard’s biographical novel, Florence Nightingale, the fabled “lady with the lamp” who brought women and the nursing profession to the front for the first time during the Crimean War, confronts a Jamaican woman, Mary Jane Seacole, who wants to nurse white soldiers.
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