ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am very grateful to Keshini Naidoo and Lindsey Mooney at Hera Books, for giving me this wonderful opportunity and guiding me through the process of being published.

I have learnt a good deal about the Great War through the moving memoir of Vera Brittain, in Testament of Youth. (Virago Press, ISBN 0-86068-035-5.)

I have also referred to A Nurse at the Front, based on the First World War diaries of Sister Edith Appleton, edited by Ruth Cowen. (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-84983-366-0.)

I have learnt how Belgian refugees were welcomed and supported through the Royal Tunbridge Wells Refugee Community.

I have a great respect for the Suffragettes, active in the period before World War I, and the Suffragists, who were less militant. Many of them did valuable war work and helped women to be recognised as deserving the same rights as their menfolk.

I must also mention the Romantic Novelists’ Association, a valuable source of helpful advice and encouragement for novice writers.

Sincere thanks to all who helped me in my path to becoming a published writer.